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Personalization didn’t have to suck
In an attempt to peel away from shady data practices, I’ve started using more private browsers, opting out of data sharing on websites, and logging out of my Google account and social media to minimize cross-site tracking. For the most part, the only immediately noticeable thing that has come out of this is that my…
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The ex-CEO of Waze was preaching to the startup choir
Last week, I read the article by Noam Bardin, ex-CEO of Waze, on why he stayed so long at Google. In it, he states that his experience selling Waze to Google proved to him that it’s difficult for startups to operate within a large corporation without clashes over culture and governance. Like many people working…
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Understand COVID media engagement with a simple mental model
Throughout the pandemic, the most reliable source of information has been the scientists and medical community, and yet we continue to get two levels of filtration between the best source and ourselves. The first filter is the government and the second is the media. The government distorts it one way, the media distorts it another,…
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Crowdsourcing Opinions
After finishing a book, movie, or game, what do you do? Personally I find myself rushing to the internet and looking up reviews and analyses. It’s a fantastic, and often free, way to get so much more out of the content you just experienced. However, I have started to notice a downside to this. There…
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Reading about Creativity… Again
Creativity is one of those subjects that’s been so over-explored from an anecdotal and pseudoscientific perspective that it’s become increasingly hard to recommend any content about it. In many ways, the topic is as dead as it is nascent. Millions of artists and philosophers have written about the subject and a dearth of websites have…