The reality of that particular kind of business is that there are certain things that just radically have to be rethought. The mechanics of how you convert in a beauty store, that will change. And that might be one of the things that changes for good. We might look back in five years and go, “my god, I can’t believe I used to try on makeup that som... See more
for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more
“Community” to me does not mean a bunch of people brought together simply by their shared interest in shilling a speculative asset. It does not mean burning the precious time of our lives trading fragments of horrible companies on Robinhood. A community is in some sense a commons, something people share because it is valuable to them for its own sa... See more
In practice, most people find that recommender systems do an OK job of finding things that are OK, but that they rarely help us discover things we truly love.
Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.