Tanuj
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Tanuj
Outsiders manipulate us using stories, and we all like to think advertising only works on the other guy, but that's not how it is. Advertising works on all of us, so if you're too attached to stories, what will happen is people selling products come along, and they will bundle their product with a story. You're like, "Hey, a free story," and you... See more
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
In the course of learning about the flavor, chemistry and textures of meat and so forth, we know quite a lot about the difference between pork and beef. And we know other meats from animals, so to speak, where you set the knobs with respect to the flavor chemistry. And we can navigate that whole space. We can create things that would be... See more
The Verge • Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat
Do I really have to follow some kind of narrative? Can't I just live? So be more with comfortable with messy. Be more comfortable with agnostic, and I mean this about the things that make you feel good.
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
Daily life becomes photographable, and photography becomes a practice of everyday life: a moment, a breath, a social event, a marking of time. To photograph is to digest the world.
Real Life Mag • Screen Memories — Real Life
We are an unprecedentedly self-augmenting species, with a fundamental drive to organize, imagine, construct and exercise our will in the world.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
The biggest obstacle to adoption of our product is that people think it will suck. That, fact, was the big reason why we strategically launched, specifically with some of the most globally recognized hard core meat chefs in the world — because the first thing that we needed to do with a sale of our product was to send a signal to the world that a... See more
The Verge • Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat
Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
The current governing logic of the extended internet universe, I think, boils down to a pick-2-of-3 constraint triangle: {free, open to the public, quality}.
Venkatesh Rao • The Extended Internet Universe
This idea a kind of like this bet, that we're living in a moment where, for better for worse, there's a lot more remote collaboration. People want to do interaction or collaboration through software more and more that needs to happen somewhere. The canvas is probably the place where that's going to happen. My bet was these apps, there's just going... See more