Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires?

These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.

We need more mess, more friction.

Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:

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“The stream has dominated our lives since the mid-2000s,” Caulfield says. But it means people are either posting content or consuming it. And, Caulfield says, the internet as it stands rewards shock value and dumbing things down. “By engaging in digital gardening, you are constantly finding new connections, more depth and nuance,” he says.