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The fact of the matter is that information distribution has become free/cheap, so the firehose is going to have flows at all timescales, time constants, and abstraction levels no matter what designers and advertisers want or don't want. It's the information firehose itself that's creating this environment not evil designers.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding
But a shift has happened nonetheless: the Internet used to reflect our real-world lives and the physical world. Increasingly, our real lives and physical worlds are just a reflection of our digital ones.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • The Glory of Achievement
Systems such as Anki are challenging to use well, and easy to use poorly.
augmentingcognition.com • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
This weekend, team @Sequoia took our Arc cohort to Disneyland to experience one of the most iconic, delight-and-details obsessed, storytelling-oriented brands and organizations of all time.
some surprising learnings and observations I hadn’t stumbled across in my prior research:
Brie Wolfsontwitter.comWhen hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are crawling out from the wreckage of that hyper-individualism—which left many families detached and unsupported—and people are experimenting with more connected ways of living, with new shapes and varie... See more
theatlantic.com • David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The original version of Discover Weekly was supposed to include only songs that users had never listened to before. But in its first internal test at Spotify, a bug in the algorithm let through songs that users had already heard. “Everyone reported it as a bug, and we fixed it so that every single song was totally new,” Ogle told me.But after Ogle’... See more