018: Quick Links & Recommendations
Capturing a few of the things that have recently captured my attention
QUICK LINKS
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“The most important thing about a technology is not necessarily what can be done with it in singular instances, it is rather what habits its use instills in us and how these habits shape us over time.”
Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images (The Convivial Society)
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“Maintaining financial success takes precedence over traits that were vital to building the initial idea. Nothing to lose is a wonderful thing to have. You focus all your energy on building something great. Having a quarterly dividend to maintain is what happens after you build something great. But it can come at the expense of what made you successful in the first place.”
Why Competitive Advantages Die (Morgan Housel via CollabFund)
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"We won’t enjoy a movie unless a score tells us we should. We don’t know what “good” sleep is unless we can track it and get a high rating. We can’t even choose a restaurant unless we read enough reviews. Our quest for data-backed ideas has displaced our ability to use our intuition."
Data is Killing Our Intuition (Ruben Ugarte)
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"Cox refers to Cass Sunstein’s classic paper on “the law of group polarisation” - when a group of people who agree about a controversial issue get together and discuss it, they end up, individually and collectively, taking a more extreme position than the one they started with. They radicalise each other… Sunstein’s paper was published in 1999, before the age of social media. We now witness the law of group polarisation playing out at scale, across many areas of public life.”
The Struggle With The Audience (Ian Leslie via The Ruffian)
RECOMMENDATIONS
[Books] Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
[Films] Stutz on Netflix
[Music] Unspoken Words by Max Cooper
[Photography] Ornithographies by Xavi Bou
[Podcasts] If society is making us sick, how can we heal? with Dr. Gabor Mate