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Tools For Learning

1. First, remind yourself that the goal is not to simply to consume, but to contribute back to society. Build, write, teach, help others. That's why you learn in the first place. 2. Use Anki. Here's why. Here's how. 3. Join Twitter. Use these

Information

I'm writing a book on What Information Wants [https://www.roote.co/what-information-wants]. But nailing down a definition of information is hard. What is information? Let's look at the Wikipedia definition. That should be helpful, right? (Right?!?) > 1. Information can be thought of as the

15 Learnings From an Extremely Online War

The internet's impact on Russia's invasion of Ukraine Here are 15 things I’ve learned from Russia-Ukraine as the first Extremely Online War. I. Web3 1. Crypto Funds The Meme Of The Moment 2. Not So Quiet on The Deplatforming Front II. Web2 3. What Social

The Culture War Wants You

When the latest culture war clash (like Basecamp's apolitical manifesto) appears in your newsfeed, what does it feel like? Do you want to click it? Do you feel pulled towards it? If you're human, the answer is likely yes. This is because the information wants you

Medium-Message Fit

When a product is a good fit for the market's needs, we call it Product-Market Fit. The product Uber fit our needs to conveniently get around a city. In biological evolution, when genes are a good fit for the environment, we call it Gene-Environment Fit. The genes in

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Networked Ideology of Fear

In Noam Chomsky's 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent], he introduces the Propaganda Model of Communication. Raw news comes in the top, but is filtered by the financial incentive structures of media: https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1305393581440589824?lang=euAlthough a news organization

15 Lessons of Networked Democracy

We're still in the beginning stages of understanding the 2020 U.S. election specifically and Information Age elections more generally. We're growing out of our earlier years of internet election adolescence. We're maturing. Here are 15 initial lessons, broken into three categories: I. The