One of the great balancing acts in life is to be cautious and daring at the same time. Cautious enough to avoid stupid mistakes, prevent burnout, and maintain a margin of safety. Daring enough to bet on yourself, to do the things you would regret leaving undone, and to be willing to be uncomfortable in the short term so you can learn and grow in th

I use my iPhone nearly every hour that I am conscious, every day, but the new announcements left me craving a dumbphone, since those machines, at least, cannot attempt to think for me

— Apple is bringing AI to your personal life, like it or not

Consumers are now increasingly segmented into semi-private digital spaces, whether unintentionally (via an algorithmic bubble) or intentionally (i.e., Discord, close friends stories, BeReal, etc.)

As a result, some brands are engaging with wildly varied audiences and subcultures to create mixtures of interests, values and identities that are totally

“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka

so many automated feeds dictated by corporations more so than users, gradually forming a more passive relationship between users and the content feed

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka

“The stronger identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."

— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld

What do you gain by doing this? And what do you lose?