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To imagine one’s recommendations as wholesale “generic,” rather than generic to one’s demographic, is a step stranger. It may be a tacit acknowledgment of one’s own claim to cultural dominance—the world might look flat if you are looking at it from above—or a concession to one’s own frictionless passage through space, online and off. A U.S. passpo... See more

Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“Black culture traditionally hasn’t told you to be smart in school and to work hard, because your effort would benefit the slave-owner, not you.”

Winifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

First, she squarely took on the “racism” taboo that disarms conservatives so effectively to this very day: “Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them. Why are white votes bad?9 […] Rule of thumb, Republicans: If you aren’t being called ‘racist’ by the New York Times, you’re losing.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield

Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

meritocracy.

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Both felt most comfortable in the meritocracy of academia, where brains trumped everything else. Both had an innate understanding of how the ultraconnected world that they enjoyed as computer science (CS) students was about to spread throughout society. Both shared a core belief in the primacy of data.