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Digital Immersive Learning / Therapies + Ambient ComputingCan we build interfaces that respond to a multi-sensory input?Can we build systems where users can feel or experience an environment?Can we make knowledge available at the speed of thought?Can we provide directions to computers based on thought?Can we improve interfaces so we don’t lose the ... See more

TikTok has already been banned by the US Military. Will it be in the US App Store by years end?

honestly people are starving for more collective experiences, not more siloed hyper-personalized things

Substack isn’t the only player that has sought to figure out small-scale publishing in the platform dominance era. Medium, for instance, has been home to a rotating roster of small publications, but has pivoted often and failed to emerge as the media force many once hoped it would be. Best said Substack’s main focus is the connection between an ind... See more

people want to anthropomorphize everything and they want to put everything in human terms. The whole point of a computer is it just operates utterly and completely different than humans do. At the end of the day, it’s still calculating ones and zeros. So everything has to be distilled to that and it just does it at tremendously fast speed, un

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The problem is that when you make productivity personal, you put the pressure on individuals to figure out the tension between different roles in their life. You’re telling them: You figure out how you organize the work, how you execute it. The more you do, the better. Now you have this tension of: If I spend less time with my family, I could do m

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In the fourth wave, which is just over two years old, the indie world is transitioning from individual business nerdery and personal brands/networks to more of a science, and creating a landscape dominated by shared networks rather than individual indie consultants. The Yak Collective is one such network that I’ve helped instigate, one with a focus... See more