Tanuj

I’ve come to think of the networks and infrastructures connected to the phone as active parties in the photographic process. I take pictures of the non-computational world and I give them to the phone so it can understand my world better. The phone’s understanding is extractive, not empathic, but it’s the tradeoff I accept in order to store and... See more

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me.

Each app builds a moat and walls to protect the hoard of data its peasants produce. This is both for reasons of protection, and power. How did this condition emerge?Before the advent of the internet, apps ran on your computer and saved data to your computer. The internet flipped this around. Web software ran remotely on server computers, and saved... See more

[...] it comes down to, you're not going to change people's diets. You're not going to change people's food preferences, not on any reasonable time scale. It's been tried a million times. Never works. And that meant that it's a technology problem. The way to solve the problem is to make it a losing proposition to be using this technology to produce... See more

[...] meat, to a meat consumer, is defined by the sensory pleasures, the nutritional value, the cooking behavior, the familiarity, the affordability. And the way it's made is something that they try to think about as little as possible. So what that means is that for us to call our product meat, is actually just reflecting consumer perceptions — if... See more

ITEs go quite a bit further than a conventional text editor. That is, ITEs are:

• Navigable. The apps provide methods for quickly and intuitively navigating, reviewing, and collating collected thinking.