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PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

After 18 days of diving deep into crypto, I didn't come out of it a decentralization maxi. There's space for both types of software, community, and ut

The New Internet failed to provide a clear enough plot, a straightforward enough of a product, nor legible enough of a movement to fend off the effect

A trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not

This is silly simplified but people who work in “Brand” are typically valued for their taste and ability to forecast and predict trends. They see the

One of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane,

New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale. It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited q

The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’ enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process obsolesces: dominance of logical method reverses into: techno

The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can