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Social media forms are performative solo forms with an odd conflation of friendship and marketing; the body is alone in a room performing the self, with an undercurrent of desire for applause. Without a town square to gather in and hash out the day with neighbors, social media communications have a shading of loneliness underneath.
Maria Popova • The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness
A few years ago, I saw a pattern across a team of writers I worked with: they were spending a lot of time and energy on really good first drafts of their work. In my mind, a v1 is a rough mockup to play with possible directions and prompt debate — the linguistic equivalent of popsicle sticks, cardboard, and duct tape. But I could sense them worryin
... See moreCourtney Hohne • The monkey, the tiger beetle and the language of innovation
Because the fact is we encode our biases into data, into algorithms, into technology as a whole. So as we develop an increasingly machine-driven future, we need to encode machines with the best of who we are. And in that way, infuse the future with our brightest hope, our most egalitarian views, our most evolved understandings.
Kate O'Neill • The Tech Humanist Manifesto
One of the possiblities that arise from a user’s Wallet ID being persistently connected to anything else on the same blockchain is that opt-in relationships between IDs (eg. followers, customers, subscribers) can similarly be ported, instantly & seamlessly, from one app / service / experience to any other... In plain English, if you follow someone ... See more
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
Generally speaking, the network functions through a point system. Parents trade their time babysitting for points, rather than dollars. Those points can be used to "purchase" time for someone to babysit their own kids. If a family doesn't babysit for other families, they will ultimately run out of points and to continue participating in the platfor... See more
Tami Abdollah • dot.LA
The challenge is not to eliminate conflict but to transform it. It is to change the way we deal with our differences
William Ury • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
aggregation has been terrible for ad agencies for the same reason it has been bad for publishers: the more that advertising becomes centralized on Facebook and Google, whether on their sites or on programmatic exchanges, the fewer advertising dollars are available for the inventory that ad agencies used to abstract away for clients.
Ben Thompson • Market-Making on the Internet
Figure out what you need—not just what the business needs