Elena

That’s because first computer culture, then our broader culture, has been colonized by people for whom the only truth is the power of the computer. For them there is no mystery that can’t be solved with computers, eventually. There is nothing to say except that everything will someday be quantifiable and calculable, and that the best course of... See more

if we want to be good founders and good technologists, I think one moral responsibility you have is the realization that whatever you build will affect people in unintended consequences.

How might you educate those leaders? How can you be the best steward of technology, but also be the best utilizer of technology?

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If you ask the most successful, creatively impactful, and relationally healthy people you know how they got to where they are today, you’ll find that effort and active decision making plays a much larger role than we lead ourselves to believe.

Opportunity feels like a small bullseye on a large target, but it’s much bigger for those who are... See more

“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.

In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... See more