Vikram Mekala

What my own experiment has taught me so far is that the rewards we seek – genuine connection, meaningful impact, that elusive sense of belonging – only come from sustained engagement with a place’s full spectrum of experiences.

By removing the human, we remove artificial barriers of time and money

Most of the things we need to thrive in life have become products. So we don’t just go talk to a wise person we know and trust, we go see a therapist. We might have once gone to see a priest. We can get our shopping delivered, so we’re not even interacting with the people where we buy our food. We might not have to go to the post office or the... See more

Rodney: Building a machine which could do all the things we do with our brain. It may be something that we haven’t even thought about.

I’m convinced that this friction is what creates the texture that shallow experiences lack. You can’t Instagram your way into belonging; it requires choosing deliberate entanglement over endless optionality, again and again

Visa’s deployments include a tool that finds security bugs in code, chatbots designed to act as subject matter experts on various areas of the business and a tool that helps subscribers customize timings of their billing cycles.

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