Wesley Finck

This observation suggests that the my-opic, engagement-driven design of current feeds is at odds with users’ aspirational goals and sense of intentionality— tensions that Alexandria helps address by making feed val-ues visible and adjustable.

The purpose of a typology is to see things from different perspectives not to allocate things to types – always a difficult thing to get across.

Solving the problem of wanting but not having access to people’s behind-the-scenes thinking

I don’t just want the finished product. I want the raw, messy, unpolished behind-the-scenes stuff.

I don’t just want to know what you think.

I want to see how you arrived at what you think.

In a world where output is commoditized, the artifacts of humanity that... See more

As machine learning systems become more prominent in hypothesis generation, simulation, and interpretation, the role of scientists will not disappear — it will evolve. Our ability to be creative about what data we generate, how we go about it, and what it enables, will become an increasingly central part of how we contribute to discovery.

Imagine how different the incentives would be if links were tied to physical hosts!