C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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It's the richness of context required to interpret context.
a particular communication in a particular context.
That's what has to leave the thing.
At one point, Porter says this remarkable thing.
He says, because what information is, is a particular way of understanding the world that's been sterilized to be readily understood by a distant stranger with no shared context.
And one way to put the problem of value capture is that you're ruling yourself
in terms that have been sterilized for consumption by distant strangers.
You're ruling yourself limited only to the language that has had all context stripped out specifically so it can be quickly summarized and aggregated.
Now I want to speak up for metrics because I actually think that makes the situation more horrifying.
There's an easy position that tempts people, I think, at this point, which is all metrics are bad.
They're all information loss.
Let's get rid of them.
Let's be alive, rich people, constantly alive to the wonder.
That doesn't work either.
Because we need metrics.
I think this is the true pain because we need highly compressible metrics.
highly travelable easily understood data chunks to organize ourselves at vast scale this is i mean this is how science works right science works by the collection of data data works science at its best involves different people collecting the same buckets so that they can amass mass piles of data and do analysis on that
data, right?
And also, like, we do need large-scale... There are many contexts in which large-scale information transfer and highly portable information is really valuable.
So, I think the college rankings example is a really good one because it shows us the tension between the two faces.
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