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we can roughly divide our beliefs into merit beliefs and crony beliefs. Both contribute to our bottom line — survival and reproduction — but they do so in different ways: merit beliefs by helping us navigate the world, crony beliefs by helping us look good.
Kevin Simler • Crony Beliefs
The supply chain crunch was started by increasing demand for goods, as consumers stopped spending on services. Americans in particular had more money in their pockets because they weren’t going on trips, spending at restaurants and bars, or attending concerts. Instead as city after city started enforcing lockdowns and restrictions, people started... See more
Noah Smith • Interview: Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport
A beautiful documentary (this is part one of 5, 10mins each) that follows a fourth grade class in a Tokyo neighbourhood, led by their astounding educator Toshiro Kanamori. He asserts that: Life is undervalued every day. A teacher’s job is to show how precious life is. And unlike any classroom I’ve been in, “the class goal for Grade 4 is to understand how to live a happy life and how to care for other people”.
The flip side of that trade, of course, is algorithms. In giving up the act of organizing, we’ve ceded much of our control to whatever the machine thinks would be best for us. Alexandra Samuel had a good piece on tagging for JSTOR Daily in 2019. It included this bit on what could have been with tagging:
When we fret about the perils of an... See more
Colin Nagy • The Folksonomy Edition
Gabby Dizon: This shattering of the “geographic lottery” — where you win the location lottery merely by being born where you are, as opposed to showing your expertise from where you are — is now being helped along by the ongoing construction of crypto infrastructure.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
To argue against some of this, James Turrell has said that part of the value of Roden Crater’s remoteness is that you have to really care to go there. Getting a plane and a hotel and a ticket, and taking days of time, has some of the same effect for a conference - it gives a selection filter for people who care.
Benedict Evans • Solving Online Events — Benedict Evans
As in any sector, Covid-19 has yielded some unlikely winners. For example, the Cal State system, who many would argue is the real jewel of California, has announced they will be online only. This allows them to focus on the tech and training to deliver a better online experience. Cal State, which will graduate 40,000 more students than the entire... See more
Scott Galloway • Post Corona: Higher Ed, Part Deux | No Mercy / No Malice
Like any other creator, these developers create work that is intertwined with, and influenced by, their users, but it’s not collaborative in the way that we typically think of online communities