Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)

In the inaugural* episode of Closing the Loop. Kevin interrogates Eugene about why he felt TikTok was important enough to inflict three (THREE) essays on us about it

Closing the Loop is a video series by Eugene Wei and Kevin Kwok. It's a testament to the lengths people will go to avoid finishing writing their blog posts

*doesn't inaugural make this sound very legitimate and like there will be many more

Follow us on Twitter. Though I'm honestly very confused how you found this if *not* from already following us on twitter.
https://twitter.com/eugenewei/
https://twitter.com/kevinakwok/

Follow Closing the Loop:
This is it. You're already here. Just take a look a look around.
We've been too lazy to make accounts on anything else. So this is all you got.

Referenced in the video:

Eugene's posts on TikTok
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algorithm
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat

Posts from before Eugene's blog was a TikTok fan page. Simp.
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes

Newsletter of funny TikTok's. Yo dawg I heard you l liked TikToks so I put some TikToks in your email so you can TikTok while you respond-to-professional-inquiries
https://list-manage.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9cd4750b22daeff3875dca348&id=206e50c293

Instagram account showing how basic we all are in taking the same photos
https://www.instagram.com/insta_repeat/

TikToks referenced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeVq3rk5/
https://www.tiktok.com/@420doggface208/video/6876424179084709126

Bill Gurley's blog
https://abovethecrowd.com/

Simon Rothman's twitter
https://twitter.com/simonrothman

Paper on the internet's impact on dating
https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_How_Couples_Meet_Working_Paper.pdf

Show Notes:
14:14 Graph Design and the Limits of Social Graphs
24:44 Unconstraining Emergent Creativity
33:21 Decentralization, Creators, and Platforms
45:41 The Power of the Internet and China
50:12 Social Platforms
1:04:56 Algorithmic Design, Tinder, and Platform Governance
1:20:30 Last Thoughts