Tim O’Reilly wrote an article for The Information titled AI Has an Uber Problem: a handful of deep-pocketed investors distorts the market, fueling a race for monopoly that inhibits product-market fit. (pay wall)
Continue reading “AI has an Uber problem… Capital is not a strategy”Natalie Wexler on the declining literacy skills of college students
Natalie Wexler wrote an article titled The College Kids are Not All Right (2 June 2024).
« Reports from professors point to an alarming decline in cognitive capabilities, even at selective institutions… College professors are reporting that their students are no longer capable of reading or writing the kinds of complex texts that used to be routine assignments. »
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Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote an article for Education Next titled When College Students Don’t Understand the Concept of Free Speech (22 September 2017).
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Eileen G’Sell wrote an article the Chronicle of Higher Education titled Algorithms and The Problem with Intellectual Passivity (30 May 2024).
Continue reading “Algorithms and Intellectual Passivity”the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle
Sean Brady interviewed Gerald Ashley on the Simplifying Complexity podcast (27 May 2024). The main topic was the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle.
Continue reading “the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle”Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads
Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
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Jonathan Lambert wrote an article for NPR titled Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning (May 11, 2024).
Continue reading “Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning”How Should Companies Talk to Customers Online?
Brent McFerran, Sarah G. Moore, and Grant Packard wrote an article for MIT Sloan Management Review titled How Should Companies Talk to Customers Online? (October 26, 2018).
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Risk: Global averages do not apply to local failures if they can be catastrophic.
JP Castlin wrote a LinkedIn post titled The risk(s) of not understanding risk (May 13, 2024).
Continue reading “Risk: Global averages do not apply to local failures if they can be catastrophic.”Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking
Maria Popova wrote a book review on Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.
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