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’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
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Availability is no longer determined by one’s time, but by one’s attention. The problem, of course, is that our attention is constantly absorbed by the tools we use everyday, making us feel like we’re never truly available. As these tools continue to get nicer, prettier, and more powerful, it becomes increasingly difficult to stop checking them,... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed.
AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness — an empathy — was necessary if the attention was to matter. Such openness and empathy M. had in abundance, and gave away freely... I was in my late twenties and early thirties, and well filled with a sense of my own thoughts, my own presence. I was eager to address the... See more
Maria Popova • Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
You have to know how to seize the moment of the landscape at the right time, because that time will never come back.” - monet
There are those, of a psychological bent, who would sa y t hat we are obsessed with time . They can point to individuals in American culture who are li terally time-ridden. And even the rest of us feel very strongly about time because we have been taught to take it so seriously. We have stressed this aspect of cu lt ure and developed it to a point... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
Edward Hall
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
David Foster Wallace • This is Water
Clocks are mechanical media that transform tasks and create new work and wealth by accelerating the pace of human association. By coordinating and accelerating human meetings and goings-on, clocks increase the sheer quantity of human exchange.
Marshall McLuhan, 1961.
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.