Chad Aaron Hall

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Indeed, unjustified extremism frequently results from a “crippled epistemology,” in which extremists react to a small subset of relevant information, coming mostly from one another.

Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity

The Value of the Outsider

Simply going from one pole to the next in a rapid manner is not happiness. Oftentimes, it’s just distraction.

Lawrence Yeo • The Riddle of Happiness

“Entertaining” does kind of work—albeit entertaining in the way a car crash is, where you can’t look away. But I don’t think it’s specific enough. It’s not the real measurable angle. Instead, what I think is that if you look at America from around a decade ago, say, 2012 on, the more apt descriptor is that American culture is increasingly unable to... See more

The universe suddenly hates satire

• Slow progress is still a million times better than no progress.

Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices

Lust in America and Other Odd Views of Reality by Randall Garrison

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And I have decided that I am willing to endure any amount of mockery and misunderstanding from the people who don’t get it, to be a bridge to the people who do.

visakan veerasamy • We were voyagers - by visakan veerasamy We were voyagers

I like the term “rescuing homes.” It’s an acknowledgment of what is already there instead of demolishing and replacing. The character of streets and towns is important to me. (Which is exactly what the neighbor says later in the episode, people tear down a house, stock two new houses there, and you lose character.)

re: "In with the Old" In the Heart

In recommendation media, content is not distributed to networks of connected people as the primary means of distribution. Instead, the main mechanism for the distribution of content is through opaque, platform-defined algorithms that favor maximum attention and engagement from consumers. The exact type of attention these recommendations seek is