JC
@jamescampbell
Artist. GoldForLions on all streaming music services. I am a technologist and leader building startups from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 2. I am a doer and am always building something new or tinkering.
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"The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find their way to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have." (Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?)
Most jobs are going away and they aren't coming back. AI is coming for everything.
AI is going to put billions out of work. And its a good thing.
for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went... See more
Simply existing as a coffee shop isn’t enough; the business has to cultivate a parallel existence on the internet, which is a separate skill set entirely. “It almost feels like, you must have a social media acumen, you must be savvy in this area that is adjacent to your business, but not directly embedded in your business, in order to be successful... See more
Kyle Chayka • The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
Evgeniy Rein
As late as 2011, journalists and technologists were praising social media’s emancipatory power in light of the role of Facebook and Twitter in the Arab Spring revolts. But, as has been noted many times, after the U.S. presidential election in 2016, such optimism increasingly appeared naïve and misguided. Now Facebook and Twitter are seen as... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
dreaming of a better internet and Social Media
fuel to the fire
The movie world was never the same after that film. As well as being an all-time blockbuster masterpiece, Star Wars was an absolute game-changer that truly showed what the medium could really do with its innovative special effects. The film, unsurprisingly, inspired many across the industry, and Cameron was very much one of them. Although he adored... See more
The movie that "pissed off" James Cameron
One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation
Davidtwitter.comToday, the concept of synergy permeates everything from boardrooms to artspeak to hipster dinner party chatter — but it was Fuller who coined it as cultural currency in pioneering the study of synergetics, which concerns itself with the “behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.”