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... See moreIn my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.
The conventional approach would have been to set up a meeting with a university admini
The biggest challenges we face aren’t technical.
They are psychological, philosophical–questions of values, ethics, worldviews.
Just as we are living inside Zuckerberg’s belief in instant connection.
And Steve Jobs’ dream of the computer as a bicycle for the mind…
We are already stepping into the world imagined by Sam Altman.
But what is his vision of a
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In 1970, DC was 71.1 percent Black. In 2017, it was 47.1 percent Black. Chocolate City is slipping away. Just take a look at the astronomical real estate listings or the “revitalized” neighborhoods. There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that s
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Scott Belsky
Abie Cohen • 10 cards
Look, sometimes you have to make quick decisions. You can’t just have humans make them; you have to combine human and machine methods.”
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
So much genius and trickery and money have gone into a mistaken metaphor. The competition to create and own the digital square may be good business, but it has led to terrible politics. Think of the hopeful imaginings that accompanied the early days of social media: We would know one another across time and space; we would share with one another ac
... See moreNew York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times
All of these thinkers opposed bigness and prescribed a greater humility about one’s unavoidable ignorance. No one could fully understand all the facts of the dynamic market any more than one could weigh the true costs of introducing a vast new flow of traffic through neighborhoods like New York’s SoHo and West Village, which had developed organical
... See moreTim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)
despondency.