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Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that, there is no where

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office”

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Against Managerialism

Ronald Purser currentaffairs.org

.@pmarca’s guide to hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives. https://t.co/rWbUmrloRL

Z Fellows

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he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Analyses the cultural phenomenon of hyper-optimization, discussing its impact on creativity, the overabundance of cultural products, and the need for counterforces to resist its effects.

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To counter information siloing, the organizers introduced smaller “progress prizes” awarded bi-monthly that required participants to publish their code or research open source, enriching the entire community's shared knowledge base.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Probably the bigger change, from what I've heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit fought against creeping complexity. There is a semi-famous internal document he wrote where he argued against the other search leads that Google should use less machine-learning, or at least contain it as much as possible, so that ranking stays... See more

The man who killed Google Search? | Hacker News

Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.