"As we grow accustomed to foisting more and more complicated emotional tasks onto digital butlers, we lose our ability to tolerate inelegance or find value in social failure. Moments of awkwardness and heartbreak are an inevitable part of the dating experience, and they are essential in our evolution into mature adults. By outsourcing our courtship … Continue reading Online Dating Impersonaters — Quartz
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Open, Closed, and Privacy – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
"That gets at the more important way that the relationship between open/closed and encryption is relevant to data and privacy: just as encryption at scale is only possible with a closed service, so it is with privacy. That is, to the extent we as a society demand privacy, the more we are by implication demanding … Continue reading Open, Closed, and Privacy – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
