The Social Cost of Caring About My Data
We need systems that make it easy for the average person to do the right thing by default. And until we have them, holding people morally accountable is counterproductive.…
The desire to save the world and the desire to make money need to be reunited. They are not mutually exclusive and the myth that they are is a self-fulfilling prophecy.…
There is now a number, that you can't see, that follows you wherever you go.…
Don't use Startpage.com for search, use Qwant or DuckDuckGo as your default search engine on your desktop and mobile browsers.…
A data marketplace could end up looking like Universal Basic Income, and reveal a deeper truth about how humans can coordinate their actions more effectively.…
Thinking in terms of enemies, vilifying corporate entities, mustering outrage over every data leak – it's counterproductive.…
Data protection is not a technical burden that only has moral justification. It's an unexploited opportunity in the market.…
If we are capable of transforming beyond where we are now, something unpredictable and unprecedented will have to happen.…
Data licensing is the only path forward where the world can operate in a way that somewhat aligns with our intuitions.…
Humans have some built-in deficiencies that aren't accounted for in the mainstream conception of voting and decision making. Let's fix that.…
We need systems that make it easy for the average person to do the right thing by default. And until we have them, holding people morally accountable is counterproductive.…