Earlier this morning, I read a piece about Wordle in the New York Times and decided to find more articles about the red-hot word game. Even Google has an easter egg that would make you believe: Wordle is a cultural phenomenon. But why? Matt Baldwin, a social psychology professor at the University of Florida, offers … Continue reading Everyone Loves Wordle! Why?
Network Effects
Living in the sentiment reality
By now, you must have read (or at least heard) about the rebellion of normals against the Wall Street Hedge Funds. A collective of Redditers nearly took down one of the biggest hedge funds, Melvin Capital, by what amounted to a massive short squeeze. “What we are witnessing this week is a civil war (or … Continue reading Living in the sentiment reality
The Past vs. The Future
Holding on the past is a convenient way to avoid science, technology, and the reality of the world. Future needs reinvention and rethinking. Industrial era dogmas are now in direct conflict with the digitally connected ideologies. The dissonance between the old industry and the new digital reality is also cultural. We, the humans are now … Continue reading The Past vs. The Future