3_TRENDS_Vol.27: Elliot Aronow: Sarapocial Relationships, Senseless Data + Boy Talk
Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crushed when you try to talk about those same ideas with friends and family.
David Perell • Intellectual Loneliness
Is an online relationship as honest, open and palpable as a face-to-face relationship? Does the absence of taste, touch, smell – or blood, sweat and tears for that matter – make a difference in the quality of what is experienced? Is immersion in a video game or chat room the same as playing a game on a wet grassy field, or congregating with an in-p... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
You might think a healthy information diet – especially one for a business leader or strategist – would have information at the bottom of the pyramid, but you’d be missing a crucial insight. Connection is how we process information.
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
Societies shape ways of thinking and feeling, which in turn shape how societies function—whether through damage and violence or through habits of collaboration and tolerance. But there is no reliable theory which can tell us which shifts in the present may presage the future.2 We may have to try to feel and sense them rather than deducing them.