Topic
social media
- Escape the Algorithm
In this latest issue of Res Extensa, I wrote about the need to escape from the passive consumption trap. We wake up, pick up the phone, and wait for algorithms to tell us what to read, watch, and listen to. Our attent…
- Pincaster
If you haven't checked it out, it's worth taking a look at Farcaster, a new permissionless protocol for building social networks. Think permissionless Twitter — a protocol for communities to build their own Twitters.…
- Weekend Reading: Collaborative Enterprise, Algorithms, and Fifth-Gen Management
💼 Collaborative Enterprise Elad Gil describes the trend of continuing consumerization of enterprise software. 🤖 Seeing Like an Algorithm Part 2 in Eugene Wei's series on TikTok. See part 1. 🏫 Fifth Generation Manag…
- The Prophet of the Revolt
Of this year's reads so far, Martin Gurri still holds the crown on my favorite with his 2014 book The Revolt of the Public. That book has the best diagnosis of the current state of politics, the culture war, polarizat…
- Weekend Reading: Commercial Imagery, Proof Mechanisms, and Cinematic Universes
🌏 The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model is Broken My friend Joe Morrison's latest is an extended rant on the commercial satellite imagery market, and a plea to that industry to rethink how they might improv…
- Martin Gurri on EconTalk
I've been following Gurri's work closely since I read The Revolt of a Public a couple months back. I think he's one of the sharpest minds we have right now thinking and writing about what's going on in politics, media…
- Weekend Reading: Two Elites, DOS in VR, and Personal Brainstorming
🏛️ A Tale of Two Elites Martin Gurri on the growing similarities between west and east coast elites: The effect, I suspect, will be the exact opposite of the reactionary dream. In wild and seedy digital gathering-pla…
- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
I ran across this piece about a month ago, but avoided it after sensing spoilers for the book I was in the middle of at the time. Is our universe an empty forest or a dark one? If it’s a dark forest, then only Earth i…