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Ep. 227: Visions of the Deep Life?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Metaphor of the Time Square Is Wrong

Ezra Pound: We don't need to obsess over exactly how Twitter is run. Pound: Having a single place with a uniform interface where all people for all issues can gather to talk? This doesn't work, right? He says there's no distributed curation, there's no social capital and it looks the same as anyone else. Pound: Of course that's going to fail. I mean, imagine if we had a literal global town square...

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