Ling- English
Reading notes (2021, week 22): On better metaphors, employers ruling our lives, the math on social security, and efficiency being overrated
Data: we need a better metaphor Metaphors shape the way we think about things. [current] metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources - lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely removes the individual agency that created the stuff