self-optimization Concepts

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words

The Future of Technology

by Tom Standage · 31 Aug 2005

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo

by Rebecca Walker · 15 Mar 2022 · 322pp · 106,663 words

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words

to do it to yourself.” This was fan culture reshaped by algorithmic ubiquitousness, which is to say, by tools of surveillance.3 11 Sounds for Self-Optimization In 2023, Spotify temporarily prohibited a generative AI start-up called Boomy from releasing new music to the platform. The app has been around since

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://soundexpertise.org/philosophy-and-vibes-with-robin-james/. 3 Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music (University of Minnesota Press, 1985). 11 Sounds for Self-Optimization 1 Daniel Tencer, “AI Music App Boomy Has Created 14.4m Tracks to Date. Spotify Just Deleted a Bunch of Its Uploads After Detecting ‘Stream

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Public Library, 228 Seaver, Nick, 92–93, 95, 100–101 Secretly Group, 54–55 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 201 self-driving music, 106–16 self-optimization sounds, 125–36 Shetty, Josephine, 206, 208 short-form video, 86–87, 131 Showcase, 190–92 Simon, Noah, 110–12 Simple Machines, 6 Slack, 58

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

-takes-all economy, the most successful millennials displayed their status by living and dressing like children and by outsourcing adult responsibility to focus entirely on self-optimization. The path to the top of the status ladder required neither rebellion nor tasteful detachment but a relentless and open commitment to refining one’s

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, 198–99 Seinfeld, Jerry, 130 self-help, 194–96, 198, 199–200 Selfish (Kardashian), 119 Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins), 57–58 self-monetization, 91–92 self-optimization, 99, 102, 113 “selling out,” 1–2, 23, 25, 39, 276 September 11 attacks (2001), 9, 13–16, 23, 25, 33, 56–57, 97–98

The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

by Steven Drobny · 18 Mar 2010 · 537pp · 144,318 words

Code Complete (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell · 8 Jun 2004 · 1,758pp · 342,766 words

The Simulation Hypothesis

by Rizwan Virk · 31 Mar 2019 · 315pp · 89,861 words

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words

self reflects a scaling down of our ambitions. With no definitive vision to guide and structure action on an individual or societal level—with perpetual self-optimization replacing the hope for transcendent redemption and the promise of salvation—this shift toward interiority means there is no exit from an “eternal present.” 66

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

by Michael Lopp · 20 Jul 2010 · 336pp · 88,320 words

you believe that the world revolves around you; it's just from where you're sitting, it seems like it might. The problem with this self-optimization relative to management is that they have the unique responsibility to optimize both for themselves and for you, and there are situations where those separate