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Check Your Pulse #43
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- And I think summarization is an important technology trend that more and more people in the next couple of years will appreciate as they see their time disappearing. When your time is valuable, you want simple tools to help you get stuff done. Instead, we get sucked into engagement loops from companies whose business model is often advertisements. ... See more
from A Decade of Deep Learning: How the AI Startup Experience Has Evolved by Richard Socher
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- With more creators , more content , and more choice than ever before, consumers are now being consumed by a state of analysis paralysis. The real scarcity isn’t content anymore. It’s attention. When it’s impossible to absorb everything from the flood of information, the best we can do is pick and choose what matters to us most — or, better yet, fin... See more
from Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium by gabygoldberg.medium.com
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This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
... See morefrom A Spacebar for the Web by thesolarmonk.com
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- Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the whe... See more
from Curation as a Cure by Tom White
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- Our internet, on the other hand, tends to be in quite the hurry. The pace and fervor found online like to keep anxiety company. The internet we are marketed to use is a perfect storm of interface design in the service of an attention economy. It’s dialed-in. Basically, the “feed” as an interface works. “Pull-to-refresh” as a serotonin booster works... See more
from On observing time /╲/╲/╲ by Jon Gacnik
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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.
from The 10 Best Ideas I Learned in 2022 by Gurwinder
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