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One of the wildest moments of this conversation for me was when I made a comment that I thought was just a universally believed truth about the post-platform internet: that people these days prefer individuals to brands. And then Nilay told me, “No, that’s wrong. It’s not people who are doing that; it’s the systems that deliver content to people” —... See more
Nilay Patel • NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
It is uncanny how similar Zuckerberg's comments are to Steve Ballmer on the iPhone. Ballmer laughed because iPhone was too expensive and he liked Nokia's low cost strategy. He mentioned sales too. Zuckerberg made the same exact points only with headsets.
https://t.co/klBNx1Jrit https://t.co/oNaDuMC5rm
... See moreBespoke realities are made for—and by—the individual. The collision of the propaganda machine and the rumor mill gave rise to a choose-your-own-adventure epistemology: some news outlet somewhere has written the story you want to believe; some influencer is touting the diet you want to live by or demonizing the group you also hate. Other people,
@mgurri's Revolt of the Public was an early (2014!) account of how changes in the information landscape precipitate an inevitable crisis of authority.
He's continued developing this thesis in shorter form writing: https://t.co/qUUsOG0cKC https://t.co/rMDBRtmmXn
our behavior has become a design material, just as our intuitions about the physical world once were—and those behaviors are often involuntary.