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Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
“I had a period after I left a restaurant I was working at,” Redzepi said, “where everyone treated me as if I was a stranger to them. *Leave. Stay away. Now we’re competitors.*That kind of thing. And it was a terrible experience. It was just a terrible experience. And I promised myself never to be that. Never to create that experience for anyone el
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think
Through algorithmic digital platforms like Instagram, Yelp, and Foursquare, more people around the world are learning to enjoy and seek out similar products and experiences in their physical lives. Through their feeds, they are consuming similar kinds of digital content, no matter where they live, and so their preferences are shaped in that image.
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no longer knowledge. It's intention, self-regulation, and courage.
-Sari
Walter Truett Anderson, writing in 1996, puts it more strongly: “We are in the midst of a great, confusing, stressful and enormously promising historical transition, and it has to do with a change not so much in what we believe but how we believe…. People all over the world are making such shifts in belief—to be more precise, shifts in belief about
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Today, everyone’s a nihilist.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
2006 Gallup World poll, they asked people in eighty-six countries whether they would expect a neighbor, a stranger, or the police to return their wallet if they found it.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
We are a culture that has made an idol of “work” to such an extent that in this culture, more than in most, people are identified with their work, their positions, and their financial security. This enslavement to society’s demands is rampant, out of perceived necessity and sometimes from misplaced ambitions. We have to acknowledge how much our ind
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