Will it be that we define ourselves more by the tools we don't use, or the moments we don't use them?

At the origin of all good non-fiction writing is someone who thought: I want to know more about that. I want to understand how it works. I want to know where it came from and who was responsible for it. I want to understand its implications. It is a child gazing at the stars.

— How to write

The rise of AI abusers? https://archive.ph/YIGkB

fill up your own cup, and let them fall in love with the overflow

Hype became a dirty word, and longevity increasingly feels like a myth.

Virality got conflated with relevance, while relevance comes with the curse of becoming imminently passé. Whist new gen brands like Corteiz are propped up by persistent presence, institutions such as Apple resist exploring their own hype, choosing omnipresence instead.

This beg

The world is getting larger because I can now look everywhere when I want

to find something (or someone). That means that the amount of variety is

staggering, and it means I can define my world to be exactly what I have an

interest in—and find my preferences anywhere on the planet.

At the same time, the world is getting smaller because the categories a

“I would argue what unlocks celebrity is a certain collapsed distance. It’s inhabiting a fantasy of intimacy and proximity. All forms of technology collapse that distance.”

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— age of relevance report