reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
early internet writing: pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace by humdog (1994)
when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.
the very first understanding that i had
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What I quickly realized is how many yellow blazers there are in the world and that at many times in my life, I too have been a yellow blazer—opting for easier but less authentic and less interesting routes. The podcast is part of a portfolio of things that I put in place in my life to try to avoid being a yellow blazer, to instead push myself to be more like a blue blazer, exploring anywhere I can.
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
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When a restaurant gets a Michelin star: Customer expectations rise, employee wage demands rise, suppliers expect you to pay more, and the restaurant is more likely to go out of business in the ensuing years.
He’ll be like: ‘Why is that? Why? What’s the purpose? What’s the intention and what’s the purpose?’”