Ian Vanagas

When things are innovative, nobody really cares what they look like. 

3) What loss supervises the output predictions? What assumptions about the world does this particular objective make?

High-modernist (think Bauhaus and Le Corbusier) aesthetics necessarily lead to simplification, since a reality that serves many purposes presents itself as illegible to a vision informed by a singular purpose. Any elements that are non-functional with respect to the singular purpose tend to confuse, and are therefore eliminated during the attempt... See more

Gamifying of apps means companies can't make products look better, so they are tapping into your human biology and psychology.

Thiel blamed the "gerontocrats" for Bitcoin's failure to reach $100,000 pinning blame on Warren Buffett, whom he called a “sociopathic grandpa,” as well as Dimon, the 66-year-old chief executive officer of JPMorgan who called bitcoin a "fraud" on multiple occasions, and BlackRock's Larry Fink, 69, who recently ran the Fed's direct corporate bond... See more

We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.

Companies talked about "delighting their users" because they ran out of ideas.