Agalia Tan

One answer currently bubbling up is Collective Memory, a new live-posting platform that tries to pull the internet back into the real world. The rules are deliberately simple: you can’t upload from your camera roll, you can’t use filters and you can only post what you’re seeing right now. Picking up where BeReal dropped off, every piece of content... See more

In fact, one of the things that will not survive is novelty itself: trends, fads, fashions, scenes, vibes. We are thrown back into cyclical time; what’s growing old is the cruel demand to make things new.

The app also has a serendipity slider from “Only show my selected interests” to “Show me everything.”

WIP was now a kind of soft production, and uploading half-baked concepts and early explorations became a genre in itself. The finished product – if it was made at all – mattered less than the ongoing stream of updates.

The willingness to endure five minutes of discomfort turns out to be a meaningful dividing line in life.