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- What is neoliberalism anyway? One common understanding of the term describes neoliberalism as an ideology of “free markets” and “deregulation.” But this definition mistakes advertising for reality. A better understanding, and the one Baradaran implicitly invokes, sees neoliberalism as re-regulating, not deregulating. Rather than getting the state o... See more
from Markets and the Law by Amy Kapczynski
- What I found though is that making myself understandable all the time diluted the joy that lies instead in specificity — in concisely crafting a life that only needs to make sense to me.
Allowing yourself to be misunderstood teaches you who values you for your personhood alone and how much you actually need from other people to feel sufficiently val... See morefrom misunderstood by Molly Mielke
Notes towards becoming a better investor and community-and-mutual-aid
- Now thinking about creating a movement to promote "hobbit software". Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.
Oh, the Electron empire is going to war with the R... See morefrom Dave Anderson (@danderson@hachyderm.io) by Dave Anderson
- It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vast majority of useful AI is not about creating an artificial human personality. It is about creating tools that are endowed with intelligence, and capable of performing far more complex tasks than before.
from Intelligent Tools by Every
Indeed, AI is a diffuse term that corresponds to a web of human actors and computational processes interacting in complex ways
from Who gets credit for AI-generated art? – MIT Media Lab by Sydney Levine
- Aesthetics are important in creating the appeal of products that underpins their longevity. ,25, In these instances, 'the 'product' would be a fusion of psychological and external 'realities', the user would become a protagonist and co-producer of narrative experience rather than a passive consumer of a product's meaning. The mental interface betwe... See more
from Emotionally Durable Design: Sustaining relationships between users and domestic electronic products by Jonathan Alexander Chapman
- Software projects can be thought of as having two distinct stages: figuring out what to build (build the right product), and building it (building the product right). The first stage is dominated by product discovery, and the second stage is all about execution
from Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- Instead, Professor Kahneman favored an alternative that he termed “adversarial collaboration.” When people who disagree work together to test a hypothesis, they are involved in a common endeavor. They are trying not to win, but to figure out what’s true. They might even become friends.
from Opinion | The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries by Cass R. Sunstein
Investment thesis and Notes towards becoming a better investor
- In one way, it is easier to be inexperienced: you don’t have to learn what is no longer relevant. Experience, on the other hand, creates two distinct struggles: the first is to identify and unlearn what is no longer necessary (that’s work, too). The second is to remain open-minded, patient, and willing to engage with what’s new, even if it resemble... See more
from Everything Easy is Hard Again by Frank Chimero