Ilie Dobrin

    Notes

    Short observations, unfinished ideas and research notes on culture, technology, work and society.

    Oct 15, 2023

    The problem with designing systems for efficiency is that you inevitably design out resilience. Redundancy looks like waste to a spreadsheet, but it looks like survival to an organism.

    Sep 30, 2023

    We don't consume media anymore, media consumes us. It consumes our attention, our data, and our capacity for slow, deliberate thought.