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In a 2004 study, Angelo Maravita and Atsushi Iriki discovered that when monkeys and humans consistently use a tool to extend their reach, such as using a rake to reach an object, certain neural networks in the brain change their “map” of the body to include the new tool. This fascinating finding reinforces the idea that external tools can and ofte

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Christopher Alexander was known for his theories on bringing humanity into architecture. He believed everyone possessed the ability to create and design a space that he called alive. His book, Pattern language, is based on core belief that people should design their own communities. Observation is that some of the best places in the world were desi

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Solving people's distaste for paying shipping fees became a multi-year effort at Amazon.

A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever.

All of this is possible because of the easy composability of smart contracts. Neither Foundation nor Reddit needs to go out of their way to build this functionality themselves. The open, user-controlled nature of blockchain computing allows any developer to plug into these ecosystems and offer their users financial services. The result could be a r... See more

...blockchain-based accounts are particularly apt at persistent pseudonymity through providing a public, pseudonymous, and cross-platform address that displays its actions over time, what Shreyas Hariharan calls on-chain reputation. What we need, then, is a technical stack that supports not an identity, but a collection of identities to navigate th... See more

Before social media, a wide swath of the population was just utterly ignored by traditional print/audio/visual media — they never heard what each other had to think. This was the original filter bubble.