Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Is It Time to Stop Optimizing? (Coco Krumme)

Listen now (39 mins) | "And the larger issue is that we start to see the world as something to be optimized. So even if we were able to optimize unquote for the right things..."

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Elise Loehnen
May 22, 2025
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Coco Krumme is an applied mathematician and writer. She got her doctorate at MIT and has spent some time working on data modeling in Silicon Valley, as well as some time living a bit more off the grid, on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Through her work, Coco cam…

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