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- Twitter let us tweet about the show before anyone else. Instagram lets us post a photo from the undiscovered holiday spot. But these techniques had two issues. First, they required a certain degree of obnoxious spamminess. For someone to notice your coolness, you had to broadcast it to everybody, and, well, that’s not that cool. Second, for the mos... See more
from Proof of Passion by Jonathan Glick
- Snapchat was not a text messaging app. Snapchat was not a social network. Snapchat was something new. Words escaped it because it was novel—beyond our vocabulary at the time. Old, referential language failed to explain Snapchat.
from "Disregard the Words" by Josh Miller
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or been to the roof of Facebook. The roof is amazingly landscaped — it has native species of plants and these meandering walking paths — and in a way, it’s exactly what I’m talking about in the book. It’s the architecture of thinking, it’s put there to encourage innovation and conversation, but just for employe
... See morefrom How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook by Jenny Odell
- Now imagine what might happen if an artist could effectively buy into a song by purchasing some of its tokens on Royal or another platform, and then profit directly from the success of the remix. Suddenly, all the right incentives are aligned. The creators can create, and the owners get paid.
from Is the music industry's future on the blockchain? by Casey Newton
- American cities have not been too kind to minorities because (most) American cities have not been, well, cities. They are not dense, not walkable, don't allow people to rely on public transport, don't create enough opportunity (or necessity) to interact with people from different socio-economic brackets.
from Did Cities Fail Us? by Dror Poleg
The strong version of Goodhart's law underlies most of my personal fears around AI (expect a future blog post about my AI fears!). If there is one thing AI will enable, it is greater efficiency, on almost all tasks, over a very short time period. We are going to need to simultaneously deal with massive numbers of diverse unwanted side effects,
... See morefrom Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law by Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
- -Working for sweat equity
from The Rise of Micro-Economies by Cooper Turley
- Intellectual curiosity not only matters for the book choices of individuals, it is—more importantly—also essential for the progress of society. People who keep on learning every day are the ones who create new technologies by trial and error and make our lives better. This curiosity-driven tinkering creates wealth in a positive-sum manner and is on... See more
from The Death of Intellectual Curiosity by Sven Schnieders
- Embedded education is the practice of educating people through encounters that they already have with systems that exist primarily for non-educational purposes.
from [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education by Tina He