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- To have deep knowledge about something is to have a rich inner world built around that subject’s orbit. How, then, does knowledge come to exist in the world beyond an individual’s private mind?
from A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge by Willa Köerner
- As we talked about briefly earlier, the publishing part of this business, which is still a teens part of revenue and profits, their core function is to go track down usage of the content and get paid for it. Well, a blockchain does that for you just using good old fashioned cheap technology. I think there is a challenge to the industry, the publish... See more
from Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music by Colossus
- Developing regions also become offshore “back lots” for wealthier nations’ abject maintenance work, like breaking up rusty ships and processing e-waste. As Jackson puts it, some places are “more on the receiving end of globalization than others.”
from Maintenance and Care: Fixing a Broken World by Shannon Mattern
- I think it’s really important to find creator-content fit, or better yet, Creator-Format fit. It’s kind of the creator version of product-market fit. It’s determining what feels natural to you, what feels the most authentic, and comes the easiest to you?
from Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency by NFX
- People used to think they needed permission - so they would ask for somebody else to give them permission to advance, to be something different - a new job title, a new degree, a new certification, a new membership.
from LF10 - Permissionless Identities by Tom Critchlow
- What’s striking … is the apparent shift from a politics of reason to a politics of experience… In the eyes of many, personal experience has become the new way of being at home in the world. It’s like the bubble that holds the foam at a distance. Experience nowadays trumps reason… We’re led to believe that sensibility, emotions, affect, sentiments a... See more
from Touchlessness by Benjamin H. Bratton
- Embed good management of people into the software.
from Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract by James Currier
- The cataloguers first reaction to that is, "Oh my god, that means you won't be introducing the movies people to the cinema people!" To which the obvious answer is "Good. The movie people don't want to hang out with the cinema people." Those terms actually encode different things, and the assertion that restricting vocabularies improves signal assum... See more
from Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags by Clay Shirky
- With time, as with space, the locus of the “natural” is constantly shifting. Caught between two fictions — the rigidity of clock time, and the undifferentiated soup of internet time — people hoping to rediscover a “healthy” or rewarding relationship to time increasingly turn to the purest, most natural, and most objective timepiece of all: the body... See more
from Temporal Belonging by Lauren Collee