When exactly were the “certain times” of which these are the un
Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg
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The DAO Joan Index 🍕 tech + humans + economics. Founder @ Idle Ventures.
The Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse:
1. Selection Bias
2. Audience Capture
3. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
4. Thinking you’re immune to the first three…
The most successful grift of the modern era was convincing the smartest people in the world that 'changing the world' means optimizing the click-through rate on ads for mattresses that ship in a box
Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten+ years ago and have been coasting ever since…
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Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)
The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest explora...