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Cultural umami is the vague sense that yes, for some reason, it is. ““This shouldn’t be good but it is” “this doesn’t seem like what it’s supposed to be” “I shouldn’t be here but i am” “this could be anywhere but it’s here” If you tried to unpack your intuition, the absence of the there-there would quickly become evident.
The Umami Theory of Value: Autopsy of the Experience Economy
nemesis.global
Now the real advantage of tracing to me is it comes out of the box with the idea of sampling. It is a debugging and troubleshooting tool, not something with compliance or business uses. Therefore it hasn't become completely mucked up with people jamming all sorts of weird requirements in there over time. You can very safely sample because its only for developer troubleshooting.
Monitoring Is a Pain
Mathew Duggan
As people keep trying to make Twitter 2 happen, we are now in a period that I'm calling ***Eternal Woodstock*** — every few weeks, users flock en masse to new platforms, rolling around in the mud, getting high on Like-dopamine, hoping that they can keep the transgressive, off-kilter meme magic going just a little longer, even though social-media culture already been fully hollowed out and commercialized.
eternal woodstock - by Brian Feldman - BNet
eternal woodstock
Brian Feldman
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