Judith Donath - Technology, trust, and what holds society together

Judith Donath is a design thinker for some of the most important theory for how people interact in online spaces, drawing on evolutionary biology, architecture, ethnography, cognitive science. She just might be the voice we need for the multi-media multiscale world we're walking into.

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Show Notes:

• Tsundoku (09:00)
• The cost of honesty (09:30)
• theory of mind, MIT Media Lab, and Marvin Minsky (13:00)
• Roger Schank (13:30)
• cultural metaphors (14:00)
• Ocean Vuong (17:15)
• The Architecture Machine by Nicholas Negroponte (19:30)
• Bell Labs (20:15)
• Vienna Circle (20:20)
• Sociable Media Group (22:40)
• The Social Machine by Judith Donath (23:05)
• Fernanda Viégas (35:20)
• Chat Circles (35:30)
• Gossip, Grooming, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar (39:00)
• The Strength of Weak Ties by Mark Granovetter (43:20)
• Berkman Klein Center (47:00)
• Signalling Theory (49:00)
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (56:00)
• The Experimental Novel by Émile Zola (59:00)
• C Thi Nguyen Origins (59:20)
• Lightning Round (01:00:30)
  • Book: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  • Passion: Crossfit's way of thinking about metrics
  • Heart sing: Street photography
    • Teju Cole
  • Screwed up: Traditional academia
• Find Judith online:
  • Website
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Judith’s playlist
• Flourishing Salons
• Learning Salon AI

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