Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Community Design and
We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
Ideas are alien life forms with an agency and intelligence independent of any mind or substrate which they inhabit.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
The group chat doesn’t have the same feeling of presence or provide an environment to interact with that in-person hangouts do.
Ian Vanagas • The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
Choice architecture (described as “Libertarian Paternalism” by its advocates) seems to merely dress up authoritarian high-modernism with a thin coat of caution and empirical experimentation. The basic and dangerous “I am more scientific/rational than thou” paternalism is still the central dogma.
Venkatesh Rao • A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
investing wisdom and
All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
Ben Horowitz • Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
This browser should present entire paths of potential searches to explore.
Tyler Angert • information-forest
When things are innovative, nobody really cares what they look like.