10 Assorted Reads
My favorite links of the week.
How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? Mathematical models power our civilization—but they have limits. (New Yorker)
Fracking Eyeballs: How an alliance between psychologists and advertisers at the turn of the 20th century taught us how to measure (and monetize) human attention. (Asterisk)
A Deep Dive into Time to Value (TTV). Activation + AHA Moments + TTV = holy shit. (Focuschaos)
A Leader's Guide to Navigating the Halo Effect. Clear communication techniques for tech leaders. (Thinkingthrough)
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century. (Rollingstone)
4000 of my closest friends. Well, enjoy the comic. (Cat and Girl)
FAQ on leaving Google. (Ben Collins-Sussman)
Everyone is on their phones. But is it really phone addiction that we’re experiencing? (The Guardian)
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity: Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. (Wired)
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (Youtube)