Erikc Perez-Perez

set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:

1. All technological change is a trade-off.


2. The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the popula

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Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.

Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol

Instead of asking people for advice and looking for the average of all the advice you get, you should probably be taking bigger, bolder bets.

If the average is failure, you don't want to implement average advice.