3% of the minimum viable page rotation and 100% of the minimum viable pager rotation both cost $1 million a year though, which is one reason why I am not worried for SaaS companies.
@patio11
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Celebrity Intellectual Culture: Specialization and Public Identity
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It is something we understand better about celebrity culture than intellectual culture I think, but if Washington had a Kidney Guy (to use a recent example that came up on Twitter), part of his job is being the Kidney Guy, and part is choosing *exactly where* that gravity exists.
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People as Pointers Into Ideaspace: Knowledge Work Philosophy
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People can be pointers into ideaspace and for some people that is basically their full time job, which is mystifying to people who are not pointers into ideaspace.
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Social dynamics beyond algorithmic mediation in AI systems
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(There are similar social dynamics not as explicitly mediated by algorithms, incidentally.)
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Sort by Engagement Transforms Hate-Watching into Self-Destructive Choice
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Sort by engagement makes “hate watching” anything a self-destructive behavior, unless you agree with the computer that clearly you *want* to do it, since you repeatedly choose to hate-watch when you have the literal Internet of competing options and didn’t click them instead.
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Social Networks and LLMs Shape Information Consumption as Search
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This is increasingly literally the case given social network sorting and then LLMs. Relatedly: everything you read/watch/pay attention to is also a search query.
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Paint Hundreds Not Masterpieces Iterative Practice Over Perfection
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A painter I like has advice to people to paint a particular part by the hundreds. Approximately: “Don’t get attached! You can buy a hundred for $10. These aren’t works of art! They are practice pieces! Your job is not to save them! It is to put paint on all of them!”
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Engineering expertise transfers to policy circles lacking technical understanding
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A forthcoming Complex Systems episode includes a thematically similar export of ideas from an engineering-heavy community to policy circles, which find themselves nearly bereft of anyone who can explain and understand technology to a degree appropriate to its importance.
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Customer Problems Become Business Problems
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“Arb” is doing some work here. I’m using it in the impressionistic sense. In every business ever, your customers’/contras’ problems become your problems, both as relates to the business and in the more general way.
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General Contractor Career Path for Non-Academic Professionals
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(Incidentally, if you have an academically disinclined young family member who nonetheless is not a layabout, GC is potentially a good career for them. Most people get into it after a stint in trades or real estate, but that isn’t strictly required.)