“The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
Why @obsdmd is 100% user-supported and not backed by VC investors:
1. We want to stay small, we don't need to hire lots of people
2. We follow strict principles that we do not want compromise
3. Our users are happy to support us, we don't need VC money
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“I think a lot about the difference between what in my head is the push internet and the pull internet... the internet where things are pushed at you and the internet where you have to do some work… you have to pull it towards you.”
I told this story already, but it’s so beautiful I’m telling it again.
85-year-old Yaffa Adar said she survived 49 days in Hamas captivity by singing Andrea Bocelli to herself.
The famous Italian opera singer found out and sent her a letter in which he writes:... See more