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Predating Uber, I had written and published nearly a thousand essays on topics like user growth, metrics, viral marketing—along the way, popularizing tech industry jargon like “growth hacking” and “viral loops.”
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Algorithmic recommendations are the latest iteration of the Mechanical Turk: a series of human decisions that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed. Designed and maintained by the engineers of monopolistic tech companies, and running on data that we users continuously provide by logging in each day,
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Earlier technologies, like chainsaws for logging or GPS for navigation, had a one-time leveling effect.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Reshuffle: Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy
in terms of depth and breadth.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
a set of guardrails, a way to keep humanity in the driver’s seat when a technology risks causing more harm than good.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
Technology’s unavoidable challenge is that its makers quickly lose control over the path their inventions take once introduced to the world.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
