On Jay Leve, the guy behind SurveyUSA
All these polls were being conducted in a bedroom-sized chamber just outside Leve’s door called “the vault,” in recognition of its actual use back when a rare-coins dealer owned the space. Leve led me inside, and pointed to a corner. “We even kept one of his safes,” he said [...]

… and when they have observ’d, that the principal disturbance in society arises from those goods, which we call external, and from their looseness and easy transition from one person to another; they must seek for a remedy by putting these goods, as far as possible, on the same footing with the fix’d and constant [...]

If one of the fundamental problems of the technological world is the explosion of information, then it seems to me that the task of ’sensemaking’ is a burden that must be taken up by both humans and machines. This is where the real power of human-machine collaboration lies: machines are not just tools to be [...]