*IDEA: “Operation Outlier” - Explore the anomaly

Challenge of mobilization: How can we use the resources we have to make a change?

  • Facebook for Philosophers: How would philosophers engaged (perhaps would have been possible given the temporal effects of the Internet)
  • Easy fixes for mediums/formats of social media to change the way the ecosystem works
  • When entertainment and information are pushed through a dynamic/complex medium, what do we lose in this dialogue?
  • Using technology to work against the bad actors
  • Quilting as an interesting metaphor (structural)
  • Books:
    • So You Will Now Be Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
    • Fantasyland: Toxic individualism
    • Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
    • Stand Out of Our Light - James Williams
    • Agile Manifesto - Set of principles (i.e. what makes good digital tools)
    • Indistractable - Nir Eyal
    • A Book List (Paper list) - Should we curate and push out