Nina Garcia
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Nina Garcia
Knowledge is the capacity for effective action.
There is no capacity for effective action in a database.
Knowledge is the capacity for effective action | Conversational Leadership
According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe a dinner soundtrack. In the lean-back listening environment that streaming had... See more
Liz Pelly • The Ghosts in the Machine
Do you feel the allure of becoming a cyborg? Are you one of those people who loves computing, but hates what computing has become? Do you wish to become one with your computing environment, without having to give into an immersively curated dystopian corporate version of computing we experience today? Throw off the shiny shackles of Apple, dismiss... See more
The DIY FOSS cyborg -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind | Conversational Leadership
Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind | Conversational Leadership
Today, on the solstice, I invite you to think about what makes life wonderful, to consider intergenerational legacies, and to imagine future memories. In doing so, I hope to shed light on the nature of the choices we are making, often unconsciously, and their impact on the world we leave behind. For we are doing much more than giving and receiving... See more
Solstice greetings: whose favorite things? · Probable Futures
Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Even with the wealth I have, I can't imagine what it would feel like to be a billionaire. It is, for lack of a better word, unamerican.