Wikipedia can allow anyone to edit because any action can be easily undone by anyone else in the community. Only in the digital realm is it easier to repair things than to do harm. If Alice incorrectly changes a fate, Bob can notice and change it back with the click of a button. If a vandal attempts to insert incorrect information en masse, other u... See more
I’ve recently liked asking these questions in interviews:-If you were me, what kind of candidate would you be looking for?-If you joined and this didn’t work out in 3 months, why do you think that would be?-What was your last boss like? How would they describe you?
At the same time that investing became more accessible, crypto went mainstream. About 20 million Americans—14% of the population—own crypto, with 100K “Bitcoin millionaires” out there. Many Americans (and especially many young Americans) learned to think like an investor through crypto.
We have already discussed the breadth of skills required to author an interactive article. Can we help lower the barrier to entry? While there have been great, practical strides in this direction, there is still opportunity for creating tools to design, develop, and evaluate interactive articles in the wild.
Oral societies, Walter Ong argued, were deeply conservative because knowledge was scarce and fragile. All memory was living memory, and knowledge would die with those who held it if they did not pass it on to another person.