Joel E Lewis

“Three men can keep if a secret, if two are dead” – Benjamin Franklin Privacy has always been difficult to achieve, even during the time of our founding fathers.  Now, the war is over; privacy lost. In order to live in the modern world, you have no choice but to give up a traditional understanding [...]

Witness the birth of Google, the business giant: Veach and Kamangar argued that all the ad slots should be auctioned off. In search, Google had already used scale, power, and clever algorithms to change the way people accessed information. By turning over its sales process entirely to an auction-based system, the company could similarly upend [...]

Just read a great article on the subject of information overload. It’s kind of long, but it covers the topic pretty comprehensively – from the neuroscience to the philosophy of thought. I know I spend my time unwisely sometimes, which is wasteful. Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into [...]