Work, craft, building
Novelty, almost by definition, is illegible. It shouldn’t necessarily surprise us that the weirdest thinkers, who historically play an important role in birthing new categories, are usually obsessed with something that doesn’t even have a market yet and have little evidence beyond some sort of untranslatable conviction.
0xsmac • Splitting Fives: The House Edge On Wonder
legible vs. meaningful
If you build a society that worships at the legibility altar then you eventually find yourself surrounded by people and products that are easily understood but impossible to love or that don’t evoke any kind of emotion.
If you build a society that worships at the legibility altar then you eventually find yourself surrounded by people and products that are easily understood but impossible to love or that don’t evoke any kind of emotion.
0xsmac • Splitting Fives: The House Edge On Wonder
Everything is technically better and yet somehow feels less alive.
I think this collective numbness a lot of people are feeling lately is because the world is becoming louder, faster, shinier but much more hollow. This is the cost of legibility . When we turn human life into something that can be evaluated at scale we start to live in narrower... See more
I think this collective numbness a lot of people are feeling lately is because the world is becoming louder, faster, shinier but much more hollow. This is the cost of legibility . When we turn human life into something that can be evaluated at scale we start to live in narrower... See more
Splitting Fives: The House Edge On Wonder
When you remove enough of this over time, you slowly scrub the soul from it. We’re better than ever at building things and yet it feels as if we’re losing the unexplainable wonder from them because we’re so obsessed with optimizing the soul out of everything.
Splitting Fives: The House Edge On Wonder
At a16z, we believe that the best thing that a society can do for a person is to give them a chance. Give them a shot at a great life regardless of their circumstance, background, ethnicity, religion, gender or any other attribute. Give them a shot, a chance to contribute, a chance to do something larger than themself and make the world a better... See more
a16z • Tweet
why not just raise income tax rates?
because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.
you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.... See more
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