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From T. S. Eliot, “The Perfect Critic,” in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920): When we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts. Alan Jacobs, in How to Think, comments on Eliot’s text: Note that the problem, for Eliot, is not that emotions are involved, but that they substitute for thought, that they replace thinking. Read more...

The current prioritization scheme of content algorithms dictates that engagement comes from posting more frequently or conforming to a certain format. In the long term, this leads to a decline in the quality of work of most creators, who struggle to keep up with the algorithm and sacrifice quality for volume Read more...

Three key ideas from Cory Doctorow from his article The Memex Method Read more...

“Normal no es una persona. Es una distribución.” (Lo leí en algún lado) Read more...

An organization doesn’t go astray overnight. Where are Google founders? Read more...