The myth comes first [465]
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The myth comes first [465]
In the contemporary version, Sisyphus would empty his inbox, lean back, and take a deep breath, before hearing a familiar ping: “You have new messages…”
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Email today is now less a communications medium than a communications compile target. It’s a clearinghouse technology. It’s where conversations-of-record go, where identity verification happens, where service alerts accumulate, and perhaps most importantly for publishers, where push-delivered longform content goes by default. It is distributed and... See more
Ribbon Farm • A Text Renaissance
Life begets death begets life
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