The privilege of logging off
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The privilege of logging off
I’m convinced that it’s going to become a straightforwardly high-status, elite play to renounce phones, social media, and many other aspects of digital culture. In a world of insane information abundance and always-on connection, reclaiming the stillness of your own mind will be akin to flying private.
If I’m right, we’ll see a growing divide betwee
... See moreDavid Mattin from New World Same Humans • New Week #138
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Escape: the perks of being unavailable
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this is what we need when the Internet has forced us to become 24/7 accessible
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In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something ess... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
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I love social media (obviously, I write this newsletter). But there are days when I blast through my TikTok time limit and am left feeling exhausted. So much of my job (and most jobs these days) are wrapped up in staying relevant with what’s going on in the world — constantly up to date, dialed in, on the pulse. Despite the fun times I have online,
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I think it’s forking, and I don’t think it’s going to be completely subsumed by online. Because I think the one thing we need to look at pretty closely is: For a long time, being “more online” was higher status, and it is now flipped, where the highest-status thing you could do is not be on social media at all. You know, you have your assistant who
... See moreDan Frommer • How the internet changed culture — and what it means
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