Producing information about the challenges of managing information seems a little meta to me, yet it seems that the current algorithmic approaches are missing the mark somehow. The information problem is both an individual problem and it is a collective problem. We live in different pods of collective information. Navigating Read more…
It has become somewhat mimetic to write something about mimesis. However, once you learn about mimesis, you just can’t unsee it. Not only do you see mimetic behavior in everything, but you see more and more articles mentioning mimesis. For better or worse, mimesis explains a lot about human behavior Read more…
The twins are it again. And I don’t mean waking up too early. Some things are so obvious, but yet we are still completely oblivious. The net effect of the information age is not necessarily enlightenment, but a dark age of filters. Watching the latest Anthropic release of “computer use” Read more…
Information doesn’t fit in boxes. Once you put information in a box, it becomes less visible and its value slowly begins to depreciate. Yet, day after day, information is forced into boxes. While data usually fits into these boxes, the data is increasingly decontextualized over time and its value diminishes. Read more…
Information is not clean. Information is never perfect. Yet, we have to cope with incomplete and dirty information all the time. And we have different imperfect methods for dealing this. Trying to clean the information seems like the most rational and objective approach, but the act of cleaning the information Read more…
This blog got a lost in the background trying to straighten itself out and come up with a clear message and purpose. In the background I have been trying to write the perfect posts and frameworks. Posts that explain everything perfectly and give readers a clear reason to come back and learn Read more…
When I was thinking of this headline for this post, I had no idea how cool and ambiguous that it would look…And that is what makes this post more relevant. The first rule of everything is: Things are not always as they seem. But sometimes things are exactly as they Read more…
The best way to manage infinity is to pretend that it doesn’t exist. Sometimes putting constraints on things is the only way to get things done. Sometimes these constraints are real like the within the laws of physics, but sometimes they are quite arbitrary. Decision-making requires making choices and choosing Read more…
Data addiction is a huge and cascading problem as data increasingly moves toward infinity. Data is valuable, but its value is overestimated. The right data, applied appropriately is useful, but contrary to the prevailing wisdom, having more data doesn’t necessarily lead to better outcomes. At the same time, it is Read more…
Your data is worth nothing. No, really. When there is so much data available every bit of additional data has diminishing returns. For all the times that new information provides meaningful clarity, there are more times that more information is really just more noise and muddle. Information does not, in Read more…