Saved by sari
Digital nutrition
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
Balaji: You are what you eat... In the future you will never not know your infection because of non-invasive diagnostics. You can now see cause/effect for your diet. What we optimize today is Twitter likes. The media diet issue is analogous to our diet diet - we went from family cooked meals to capitalist entities not aligned with you (CocaCola, et... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Optimizing Your Inputs
Consuming online content makes us feel like we're learning, but 90% of the content is useless junk—small talk, clickbait, marketing—which crowds out actual info from our minds. As such, we feel we're getting smarter as we get stupider.
Gurwinder • The 10 Best Ideas I Learned in 2022
In the digital world we live in, knowledge most often shows up as “content”—snippets of text, screenshots, bookmarked articles, podcasts, or other kinds of media.