Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Weird internet communities are seeds from which much wonder grows! @slatestarcodex’s writing cultivates many favorite facets of SF culture. A NYT writer plans to reveal the pseudonymous author’s name despite his safety concerns, so SSC is now offline. Such harm—for what value? https://t.co/lb8GolRkab
As Web 2.0 companies began to deeply understand the powerful potential of their innovations — the game-ish reaction buttons, the follower graph, the algorithmic ‘newsfeed’ — they became adept at a clever stratagem. Rather than committing to perpetual openness, they could offer new user tools or developer APIs and encourage the community to use them... See more
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
describing how algorithmic recommendations and other digital communication routes can silo Internet users into encountering only…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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 problem remains: we are still producing an unbearable volume of information; we still need some way to sort through it. The regime of the hipster was an inefficient way of sorting it; it died. The regime of the nerd was an overefficient way of sorting it; it is dying. The last remaining option is mal d’archive , the Kang solution: you ease the... See more