Ben Cuan
@bencuan
trying to understand the internet
Ben Cuan
bencuan.me
In a city where it's hard to distinguish the months from the seasons, it's easy to slip into the mentality that there will always be time. After all, time seems to be suspended in the balance.
I hate cold water and other reasons why I run into the sea
Because of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case in human history until now.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
The first 90 percent of writing an essay takes up the first 90% of your time.
The remaining 10 percent takes up the other 90%.
Alex Dobrenko`substack.com
It's interesting to see how many people put "Twitter refugee" or something similar in their Bsky bios. Have people done that before when migrating to new platforms? I don't recall seeing "Friendster refugee" or "MySpace refugee" on newer platforms in the 00s.
Annalee Newitz (@annaleen.bsky.social)
She said, “I trust you’ll figure it out.” Which I’m sure was well-intentioned, but just to be clear, that line didn’t help. It says two things:
1. There’s something wrong to be figured out, and
2. It’s on you to do it
1. There’s something wrong to be figured out, and
2. It’s on you to do it