Joseph

from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”

Entropic Apex

Chronemics is an anthropological, philosophical, and linguistic subdiscipline that describes how time is perceived, coded, and communicated across a given culture. It is one of several subcategories to emerge from the study of nonverbal communication.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options.

When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but... See more

’s key point about EdgeRank is that its “two key ingredients” were manually programmed to reflect the judgments of Facebook’s engineers. That is, the programmers wrote the algorithm in code. In the traditiona

But I’m going to posit to you that the liberal arts cliché turns out not to be insulting at all, because the really significant education in thinking that we’re supposed to get in a place like this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.

“And I think it was memory that saved us. You see, we have already known that

There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.” It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.