Joe Gerber

Here are the signs: Deep desire recurs; it won’t leave you alone. Individuated desire is weird and doesn’t track with what your friends or your feed would predict for you. Contextual desire triggers synchronicities: the world seems to arrange itself around the pull in surprising ways. When all three are present, throw.

Kahneman showed that expert intuition is real, but only in domains with regular structure and enough practice.

A garden is different. A gardener can’t directly cause a rose to bloom. Instead, the gardener’s job is to create the conditions under which a garden can flourish. It is to make sure there is an appropriate amount of sunlight and water and nutrients, to prune and shape plants, and to keep pests at bay. The gardener guides and nurtures but doesn’t... See more

What forecasters got wrong is that they modelled a price. They should have modelled a process.

• It’s imperative that we situate the public algorithmic feeds as more equal to the rest of our information ecology. It’s not the beginning and end. It means going back to using group chats. But also, simply going offline again and investing in local communities. It’s not saying we should toss out the public web and algorithms. But, it’s one part of

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We’ve made our information ecology into one that’s entirely that of a monocultured lawn

It’s thus not wrong to draw the conclusion that when we reshaped our information ecology by reducing the cost of sharing information on a global scale, we’ve not just made it possible for memes to spread more, but also allowed specific memes to reshape our entire information ecology.