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“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.”
― Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
― Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
“Overall, personality tests would be more useful if our personalities didn’t get in the way.”
― Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
― 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.”
― Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
― Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
“Infinite responsibility, therefore, no rest allowed for any form of good conscience.”
― Specters of Marx
― Specters of Marx
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