Josh Bowen
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Josh Bowen
- What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is ... See more
from The Power of Patience
- Collective ownership can take a number of forms: unions, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and stock options are all related. But the most important means of collective ownership will be the resurgence of an old model: the co-op.
from The Ownership Crisis by Yancey Strickler
Ultimately you'll have to determine the info-diet that works for you. But if you insist on endlessly consuming whatever the web serves you, know that this banquet culminates in a bitter dessert: at the end of your life, when you're weighing your regrets, you probably won’t say “Man, I wish I’d spent more time browsing the web.”
from The Intellectual Obesity Crisis by Gurwinder
information diet management and dreaming of a better internet
- Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.
Joan Riversfrom The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.41 by Patricia
- They had no reason to expect we would share common ground. But we managed to have a perfect, no-stakes interaction after two years in which many people haven’t taken a chance on anybody.
from We Really Should Hang Out More Often by The Atlantic
- The best example of this alternative product is Indie.VC, run by Bryce Roberts. Over the course of 6 years, Indie invested in 40 companies. It held the two key components of limited fund size and gave equity optionality through redemption clauses or equity buybacks. The results are encouraging, with a 51% IRR and 4.3x TVPI, while 87% of the compani... See more
from Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption by Evan Armstrong
- Think-in-bio is the new link-in-bio
A lot of what I collect on Sublime I do privately.
But everything I make public lives on sublime.app/sari.
My very own think-in-bio.
A think-in-bio is like giving others an API for your mind.
To be able to follow people like Packy McCormick, Rob Hardy, Natalie Audelo, Steve Schlafman and see what they’re saving to th... See moreSimilar to a brain API
- If we want to understand what AIs are going to look like, I think the proto AI that we have are corporations. Corporations are sort of these funny little beasts. They’re not small. I guess they’re not little beasts, but they’re strange. It takes special training to have humans be able to fit within them. They’re made out of humans mostly but they’r... See more
from Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode by Recode Staff
- Investment and time are required to establish a foundation for lasting community; members need to feel as if they have a shared emotional connection, not just an affinity toward a product or brand, but with each other. It’s rare to come across this collective third space that blends together the public and private, Gát said.
from Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community. by Vox