Gaurav Mathur

“Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward”
― Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

“Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanisms by which predictability is calculated, you come to understand that its science is, in fact, anti-scientific, and fatally misnamed: predictability is actually manipulation. A website that tells you that because you liked this book you might also like books by James Clapper or Michael Hayden isn’t offering an educated guess as much as a mechanism of subtle coercion.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together. This task involves many moments of high-candor feedback, uncomfortable truth-telling, when they confront the gap between where the group is, and where it ought to be.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing