GenAI, polyester & slop galore
David Marx (of Ametora fame), draws parallels between the role of polyester in textile manufacturing and its cultural implications and today’s rise of generative AI. When polyester first…
Tag: information
Democracy needs a healthy internet. We don’t have one.
Here’s a story about how democracy, our very way of organizing our society and our lives, is under existential threat — because our public information sphere, our media environment,…
Info habits, revisited
I firmly believe that what and how you engage with information shapes the way you think.1 I kind of think of this as another version of the trash…
Different modes of strategy planning
To simplify how to think about the role of strategic planning, I’d like to share some basic lenses that have been helping me in my work over the…
Can you trust the information in Wikipedia? Wikitrust tells you.
A very interesting project going by the name Wikitrust (part of the Wikipedia Quality Initiative) analyzes if information on Wikipedia is trustworthy. In order to do this, Wikitrust…