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Primer on NFTs
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Beyond Engagement: Aligning Algorithmic Recommendations With Prosocial Goals →
Good primer and reading list on the intersection of recommenders with social issues such as addiction and polarization.
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Opinion: Our constitutional crisis is already here →
The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.
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Why some esoteric technology never breaks into the mainstream.
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Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure →
The danger of treating everything in life is an optimization problem.
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Predicting What Songs Phish Will Play Next with Deep Learning →
Using machine learning to try and predict what songs Phish will play next.
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The Invisible Hand Behind the Tokyo Olympics →
Good backgrounder on Dentsu's history in general and specifics on their puppet-master role behind the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
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A Framework for Ethical AI at the United Nations →
An overview of the ethical concerns in artificial intelligence and the framework that is needed to mitigate those risks
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'I f--ked up': How a pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay (and didn't lose his job) →
Asoh's story has since been repeated in many leadership courses on how to accept responsibility for mistakes, including in this blog post on how "Companies must empower leaders to hold themselves accountable" and the How to Use the Asoh Defense training, which promotes “the power of admitting one’s own mistakes.”
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Consider our pricing: $17 per month or $187 a year, what we like to call fair value pricing. With a limited free access system in place for fewer than four months, we’re approaching 1,000 members paying that price. Of those, 76% have opted for annual membership.
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You're Probably Not Using the Web's Best Browser →
With endless new customization options like new email clients and a feed reader, Vivaldi 4.0 just got better.
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TurboVax finds appointments from 53 city and state-run vaccine sites in the NYC area.
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Is Substack the Media Future We Want? →
The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.
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The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End →
Couples pledge many things to one another. When my father grew ill, one promise tested everything about my parents' long and happy life together, and forced my mother to wonder how she would keep her word—and also whether she should.
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As the state has become increasingly dependent on Silicon Valley for many of its core activities—mapping, law enforcement, immigration control, warfare—it has betrayed many of the principles on which its legitimacy was previously based, such as privacy. Silicon Valley’s global influence is waxing just as America’s conventional imperial power wanes; there will certainly be those in government who would prefer to exploit the power of these monopolies than break them up.
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Why Polling on The 2020 Election Missed the Mark →
Polling now seems to suffer from some systemic problems, whic
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It’s not about casual browsing, not glancing at Twitter to see the latest news or checking your friend’s Instagram profile for updates. It’s a move directly toward an addiction that will be incredibly profitable for the company. And the more we trust that algorithmic feed, the easier it will be for the app to exploit its audiences.
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How SmartNews is restoring balance to political polarization with News from All Sides →
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The 10 best news apps to stay informed without all the doomscrolling →
This Japanese-based news aggregator uses machine learning to find top stories for its app. It's been popular in Japan and the U.S. for many years, with a focus on news from those two countries.