AlexNE

“If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are,” the philosopher Alain de Botton has written, “the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.”
― Melissa Dahl, Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness

“Overall, personality tests would be more useful if our personalities didn’t get in the way.”
― Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

“Algorithmic recommendations are addictive because they are always subtly confirming your own cultural, political, and social biases, warping your surroundings into a mirror image of yourself while doing the same for everyone else. This had made me anxious, the possibility that my view of my own life—lived through the Internet—was a fiction formed by the feeds.”
― Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

“If things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
― Jacques Derrida