Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
But when I am served videos by someone who has been anointed with this stardom I don’t feel like I am inhabiting someone else’s taste but, rather, the taste of the algorithm.
Fact check the following statement and tell me if it’s true, false or deliberate lie. Use only primary news sources and moderated information aggregators. If you cannot verify something directly, say “I cannot verify this.
Do what you want. Don’t imagine the faceless mass. Build it for yourself.
- Yancey Strickler
the only way to learn is to do it and live
Similar to the Rick Rubin quote
When we pursue optionality, we avoid bold decisions. Like anything meaningful, venturing into the unknown is an act of faith. It demands responsibility. You‘ll have to take a stand, trust your decision, and ignore the taunts of outside dissent. But a life without conviction is a life controlled by the futile winds of fashion. Or worse, the hollow... See more
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
On freedom / i wish i had more time and Why dont we just do it?
Feels infinitely connected to the quote “the magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding”
AI is powerful but taste-blind. It can make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
I’d argue most humans have the same problem
Vi Hart’s Internet Votes (written 2015, published 2017):
... See moreOn the internet, content rises to the top if it wins the popular vote. But unlike modern implementations of democracy, you get as many votes as you have time to give, all day every day, and most of those votes are taken by web companies without asking. And unlike the popular vote in democracy,