These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us... See more

People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link... See more

Through the act of reading, these things are brought not just into relation—but in the way of Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari—rhizomatic. Glissant describes rhizomatic thought as “the principle behind what I call the Poetics of Relation, in which each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other.”3 An enmeshed root system

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