Nixon's scabrous attorney general
It's sometimes hard to grasp the pecuniary motives of the big tech companies, because they strike such an idealistic pose.
David Foster Wallace called the condition Total Noise. With it, our reading became peripatetic, less focused.
:D DFW shoutout!! he also quotes Herbert Simon on attention in the next sentence
Perhaps Facebook no longer fully understands its own tangle of algorithms--the code, all sixty million lines of it, is a palimpsest, where engineers and layer upon layer of new commands.
this is true, I don't even understand how Macro works and I wrote all the (much fewer lines of) code myself
In a hagiographic documentary about him
