hyper-celebrity

The central premise of social capital is that social networks have value. Social capital refers to the collective value of all "SocialNetworks" (who people know) and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other ("norms of reciprocity"). (more)

The tragedy of the Commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting that resource. The concept and name originate in an essay written in 1833 by the Victorian economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (then colloquially called "the commons") in the British Isles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

CoFounder of SnapChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel (more)

A Proof-of-Work (PoW) system (or protocol, or function) is a consensus mechanism. It deters denial of service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from the service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer. The concept was invented by Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor as presented in a 1993 journal article.[1] The term "Proof of Work" or PoW was first coined and formalized in a 1999 paper by Markus Jakobsson and Ari Juels. A key feature of these schemes is their asymmetry: the work must be moderately hard (yet feasible) on the requester side but easy to check for the service provider... Proof-of-work systems are being used as a primitive by other more complex cryptographic systems such as bitcoin which uses a system similar to Hashcash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work

cf connection, loneliness

Social connection is the experience of feeling close and connected to others. It involves feeling loved, cared for, and valued,[1] and forms the basis of interpersonal relationships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_connection

status of owning your own home, not renting. see Mortgage Debt, Single Family Home

Debt Financing for Home Ownership - Housing Market - Real Estate

see Mortgage Debt

The sloppy thinking is to consider any Group Discussion to qualify as a "virtual community". Perhaps a better filter would be "would you lend money to a member of that group, or invite them to stay over at your place overnight when they're in town?". (more)

Process in a democracy of selecting political leaders. (more)

Adam Rifkin: Panda Notes on Happiness and Meaning. Over the years, our wonderful PandaWhale community has taught me considerably about happiness and meaning in life. This post offers a dozen lessons I have learned: (more)

Pitfalls of Card UIs. Since Pinterest, the end-state of every list view with decent imagery is to become a CardDeck UI. But thar be dragons! I’m here to share some of the pitfalls Paravel have encountered building Card UIs over the years.

Renee Diresta: The Web’s Recommendation Engines Are Broken. Can We Fix Them? (more)

Will Oremus: How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms. Inside the company’s powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals (more)

Alexey Guzey: How to make friends over the internet. Make friends over the internet with people who are great at things you’re interested in. (friendship, interest graph) (more)

KicksCondor interview with Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext. A few months ago, I stumbled across the essay ‘The tyranny of ideas’ (2019-05-09-EghbalTheTyrannyOfIdeas) and was truly struck by the inquisitive, thought-mashing flow of the writing. (more)

Benjamin Reinhardt: Networking for Nerds. I developed a set of tactics that unleashed many opportunities - a stint as an EIR at Susa Ventures, speaking at conferences in Brazil and SXSW, and getting a company off the ground. (I like to think that) these were all built on a door of real value, but tactical network building provided the key. (more)

Pinterest introduces Lens, a Shazam for objects in the real world. Lens builds on underlying visual search technology that Pinterest introduced in November 2015 (more)