All technology is a mixed blessing. The printing press gave us all greater access to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Bible — but it also enabled revolutions and rebellions. The invention of the movies gave us a new medium of high art, but then a mass of trivial television. Phones and social media can be distracting and enraging, but they are also a... See more
As Wikipedia approaches 20, there’s been a small proliferation of articles celebrating the site as “a bastion of the Good Internet” and “the last best place on the internet.”
“One admires a genius because one has the imagination to see that there is no ‘mechanism’ in him or his work, nothing that can be analyzed and rationalized”
In this situation time is of the essence. In one scenario, these patients will be taken to a primary stroke center, which can handle most simple stroke cases and can also assess if a patient has a more serious stroke issue, such as an LVO, that will require more complex stuff like a thrombectomy, neurosurgery, etc. Those more serious patients will... See more
Incentive mechanisms have always been critical to build a healthy, highly participatory community of any kind. But historically, these systems and incentive mechanisms have been fractured and separate across spheres. We’ve had political systems for organizing participation in mass movements. We’ve had corporations and other financial structures for... See more