The optimization ratchet is often turned against you.
- The optimization ratchet is often turned against you.
- Companies are very good at optimizing.
- Their interests will dominate your interests, naturally.
From other episodes
- Alive Internet Theory is about resonant spaces online.2025-12-15
- Why does the tech industry experience such a strong version of the coordination headwind, compared to other industries?2025-12-08
- Steven Levy laments "the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders—and me—to the tech revolution."2025-12-08
- A new piece of mine: What Got Lost in the Optimization.2025-12-08
- Technocrats love optimization.2025-12-08
- Ellul has a critique of "the technological society."2025-12-01
- "Number go up" sounds like something a braindead zombie would say.2025-12-01
- Centralized things are hollow.2025-12-01