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Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images

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We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans are inefficient. “Every single thing that we really value as humans is terribly inefficient” Science, discovery, art, adventure are all inefficient

- Differentiated instruction: technology’s ability to differentiate among students and deliver a uniquely tailored curriculum may just be in its infancy, but is one of the most promising lines of work ahead. [Teachers vs Tech](https://www.tes.com/news/book-review-teachers-vs-tech) by Daisy Christodoulou can serve as a starting point for... See more

Risk is a multidimensional vector. Decentralization mitigates some risks, but not others. I guarantee you that developers today are more comfortable building on what’s left of Twitter’s APIs than they are building on top of public blockchains. Twitter has 38M accounts regularly using their APIs, while total Dapp users are still well below 1M.

The goal of trails is to construct not only a window into web content but a narrative of user activity. Our hope is that our work might help advance the state of browsing closer to the ideal of a tool that enhances our cognitive process, rather than increasing our cognitive load.

Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money You could say every single startup will fail – you’ll be right 90% of the time, but you won’t be rich