We’re increasingly trapped inside an algorithm that filters our news based on what it thinks is best for us.
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/03/the-filter-bubble-what-the-internet-is-hiding-from-you
In this new RSAnimate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?
Upper classes give lip service to whatever they are supposed to endorse, and then mostly ignore it to do what helps them personally.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/03/elites-excel-at-hypocrisy.html/trackback
Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random
Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, is an introvert. So as she gets up to present from the TED2012 stage, bag in hand, it is not a comfortable experience. But it’s an important one, and that’s the point.
http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/an-introverted-call-to-action-susan-cain-at-ted2012/
Inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre, the planet’s brightest quantitative analysts are now calculating our future
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0664cd92-6277-11e1-872e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1o4sgk4cl
There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea.
I am deeply suspicious of the very idea of happiness, and its pursuit.
Francis Fukuyama talks with the renowned entrepreneur.
Very few company founders start out with management experience, so they tend to make it up as they go along.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html
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