New video series, Closing the Loop

If you follow my blog, then you likely follow Eugene Wei on twitter. Eugene and I have started a new video series, Closing the Loop.

You can find it here on Youtube.

Some of the topics include:

  • Graph Design and the Limits of Social Graphs
  • Unconstraining Emergent Creativity
  • Decentralization, Creators, and Platforms
  • The Power of the Internet and China
  • Social Platforms
  • Algorithmic Design, Tinder, and Platform Governance
  • And a bunch of other random stuff

I’d pretend we’re doing it because people say our posts are too long. But I checked the word count of the transcript, and it was 15k words which is significantly longer than most of my posts. So I guess you won’t really be saving much time.

We’re hoping to go into more follow up discussions on many of the topics we write about. As well as have some guests on.

Fear not, I’m not shifting away from writing. In fact, have been editing a new post I’m hoping to publish soon. It just turns out this is coming first because…video is a lot easier than writing. At least the way we are doing it with no second takes. We’ll see when I can publish. The process of making videos has also been fascinating. Whether here or on Twitter, I’m guessing will have some post-mortems on many parts of that process to share.