Wendell Berry’s standards for technological innovation. Hard to follow but good to measure any new technology against:

1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.

2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.

3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.

4. It should use less... See more

As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in isolatio... See more

Instead of just being a destination for reading content, like Medium or Wikipedia, the cohort of knowledge-sharing startups are focused on helping people create and organize information, but also tap into crowdsourced knowledge that's then shared and published.

Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.

There are four factors that contribute to a sense of community: membership, influence, integration/fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection.

“Connectivity between restaurants and guests has eroded. There’s a difference between knowing it’s someone’s birthday and being able to contact that person and invite them in for a drink.” - Ben Leventhal

Blackbird transforms traditional loyalty systems and fosters a more interactive and valuable relationship between consumers and businesses.