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Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Yet that vision of smallness is under the auspices and control of Airbnb, following the template the company has set and the conditions that it profits under. Smallness implies homogeneity and a move toward uniformity, most likely under a Western default, under the ideology of the tech industry. The trade-off that Chesky implied was that the more m
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
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)
These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects


James Suzman • Work
His Alienation Theory explained how the specialised and repetitive nature of the production process causes workers to ‘become depressed spiritually and physically to the condition of a machine’. The cause of specialisation, he contended, was a policy of the division of labour, which extended beyond the factory and became a social norm The division
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