In case anyone is curious, Chapter 25 goes into detail on how FB used their algorithms to manipulate the public during the 2016 election.
Posts by Jamie Jonas
I look forward to the time when we stop treating children like a separate species, raising them with skills and expectations that make them good children, but not necessarily good adults.
The breakdown of the Terminator and Alien plots is awful and amazing.
Revolutions happen when enough people lose enough power that no amount of money, charm or threat can overcome their need to live with dignity.
"In unconstrained conflict, the community that wins is typically the one that can fight the hardest and longest and with the most resources"..."the most selflessly devoted to it's success-and the most implacably apposed to surrendering to the 'other'. - Neil Strauss, The Fourth Turning Is Here
My memory of the dawn of social media, before the overwhelm of ads and doom scroll algorithms, is that it was similar to this is now - checking my feed periodically to see if friends and family had posted anything, and often being disappointed. I kinda like it ๐
FYI, if you use Zelle ๐ Just got this email telling me I'll have to enroll in one of the banks/CUs that offers Zelle as part of their network.
'Thomas theorem', coined by two sociologists in 1928: "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."
- The Fourth Turning Is Here, by Neil Howe
High performance isn't everything....and sometimes it's not even the most important.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTo9...
Despite being a first-wave Millennial, my GenX characteristics rise with a vengeance when working with founders and executives.
Friends doing cool shit ๐ง
A bully will try to hijack your nervous system through intimidation, in order to convince you that their discomfort is your responsibility to fix.
Sabertooth kitten!๐