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ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental
the choice humanity faces in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas
“I would make sushi in my dreams. I would jump out of bed at night with ideas.” Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Ferrero, and Colin Chapman all did the s
tools, methods, and approaches to content discovery on the Internet
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness. Not entertainment or artistic merit. Not intellectual
Today most algorithms that recommend or suppress content act purely on the basis of inferred popularity. They look at how much time people spend engag
as a network scales, it is inevitable that you need a way to sort & rank content. web 2.0 solved it by ranking for popularity but a better approach co
· Are we being reprogrammed by algorithms? In the last edition, I mentioned a recent tweet-er-xeet post by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Jack suggested
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.
“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide
Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too
Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst
New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale. It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited q
The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’ enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process obsolesces: dominance of logical method reverses into: techno
The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can
Artima - The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
Academics too often mistake the confusing for the complex and the complex for the sophisticated.
Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in -Jeff Bezos
Complex systems are systems where the collective behavior of their parts entails emergence of properties that can hardly, if not at all, be inferred from properties of the parts.
“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in on
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Skeptic thoughts on crypto, web3 and decentralization.
After 18 days of diving deep into crypto, I didn't come out of it a decentralization maxi. There's space for both types of software, community, and ut
The New Internet failed to provide a clear enough plot, a straightforward enough of a product, nor legible enough of a movement to fend off the effect
For every new subway ad featuring an online pharmacy and a nice monstera plant, there was a new pop-up skate shop soaking up the runoff of Supreme tee
In an era when people trust businesses more than they trust governments and nonprofits, companies are uniquely poised to spark wonder and curiosity. W
The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.
If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Tw
Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right communi
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over
