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On observing time /╲/╲/╲
Like New York, the internet never arrests its massive sprawl. Instead, it exists as complex adaptive system that renders senses overworked and synapses under-rested.To open any app is to wade into frenzied maelstrom whipped by gale-force winds. Whether requests, reminders, or retweets, waves and winds alike pummel your attention as you try your bes... See more
Tom White • Curate the Internet, Comprehend the World: Introducing Startupy
3. Invest in cyclical growth and sustainability
Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves ... See more
Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves ... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“the idea of facing the normal flow of time is unbearably depressing,” the journalist Richard Seymour wrote in The Twittering Machine (2019). Or as the tech critic Max Read has put it, “The actual point of ‘screen time’ is the time part—the hours it allows you to numbly burn up.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/27/a-self-divided-the-sirens-
... See moreWhen it comes to the internet and our media ecosystems, it is easy to hurl vague, blanket critiques like Social media is making everything feel worse. That is mostly true, by the way—but it’s obvious. Which is why I was drawn to a recent idea from writer and technology theorist L.M. Sacasas: The internet, as a mediator of human interactions, is not... See more
The Atlantic • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
