Nick Burdick
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Nick Burdick
The Rise and Demise of RSS (Old Version)
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The Rise and Demise of RSS
Two-factor authentication on google, when I have 2 accounts
The death of RSS feeds—
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The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
... See moreDaniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
Nothing evolves without context
Importantly, evolution is not about optimization in the abstract; it is about optimization relative to other genetic variants within and across species. While we are evolving, so too are our enemies (like the influenza virus) and our friends (including the microbiomes in our guts). To a large extent, evolution is about preparing for the unknown, be
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
We don’t only evolve with, we also evolve against
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A lot of poor decisions are made by misjudging the type of opportunity or risk involved.
There are BETS, which are based on the probability of an outcome; and there are SAVINGS, which are based on steady accumulation.
A lot of people make bets when they should be accumulating: trying to go viral instead of building trust, looking for the next big tre
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