Seeing Like an Algorithm⁠↗

We all could use a healthier does of humility when we are too flush with great man hubris. The world is richer and more complicated than we give it credit for.

But, as Stephen King wrote in On Writing, “If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”