Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires?

These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.

We need more mess, more friction.

Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:

Having a... See more

In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it... See more