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Everything I Know About Good System Design

René Girard explores the concepts of innovation and imitation, contrasting historical views on innovation's negative connotations with its modern valorization, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of imitation and genuine innovation in culture and economics.

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Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web

arxiv.org

Everything Is Broken

Alana Newhouse tabletmag.com

Muse Retrospective

adamwiggins.com adamwiggins.com

this was a beautifully honest retrospective

fantastic! comedy is the highest form of genius.

the phrase "Can you believe it?" stuck with me - Alex jokes about how it can be a reply to almost anything, illustrating how it can mask deeper issues of substance.

In Defense of Starting a Bad Business

Evan Armstrong open.substack.com

measuring something’s value by how much money it makes is like measuring he value of sex by the amount spent on prostitution

Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

Adam Grant behavioralscientist.org

going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.