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On modernity’s optimization of means but confusion of goals

None of these guys have any idea what they're doing. The machine is running the show. There's a famous line where it's like humanity is like the sex organs of the machines. It's like all these people are the sex organs of the machines and they don't even know it. And they think they're cool... See more

By contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds. If such a tool ever gets too successful one of the Marl-serving companies, flush with cash from advertising or growth-hungry venture capital, will acquire it and kill i... See more

Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User

Play is manipulation that indulges curiosity.

Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses

Roblox and the Dispersal of Creativity | No Mercy / No Malice

Scott Galloway profgalloway.com

Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.

Jesse Lee • Curators All the Way Down

If we get big enough, there’s a real consideration on how we train the algorithm and what objective function we get or give it, and what content gets produced for it. We need to be very mindful of that because what I’d rather have is a world where we have more original content, more interesting content, and less of this gaming-the-algorithm content

Ben Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact

So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.

Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down

Technology for producing and distributing information is useless without some way to locate, filter, organize and summarize it. A new profession of “information managers” will have to combine the skills of computer scientists, librarians, publishers and database experts to help us discover and manage information. These human agents will work with s