Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
The way I put this into practice is by regularly publishing short-form posts, and then periodically taking a few weeks (or months) to go deep into one long-form post.2 The short-form posts keep me in a playful spirit, allowing me to touch all kinds of topics that I find intriguing. The commitment level is low, while the spontaneity is high.... See more
Make Classics, Not Content - More To That
Why are most religious movies hopelessly hokey?
Is because of aversion to showing strong conflict? A story without compelling conflict is boring or hokey.
This is exactly what's happening now; it's why we can't do anything without some sort of noise in the background. It's why we have to watch a TikTok whilst also watching another TikTok.
Slowing down the train in my head
Smartphones increased our tolerance for dopamine. The dopamine that we receive from good moments in life is no longer enough, at the bare minimum we need the feeling of doing some AND using our phone at the same time.
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
app.thestorygraph.com
RSS has been pronounced dead over and over again, yet it is still not dead and I doubt that it ever will be. In fact, it is witnessing a little comeback from time to time. Personally, I have started to use it more regularly again and others have, too. RSS is a great way to follow the people whose posts, ideas, and opinions matter to you.
Matthias Ott • Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters by Paul Maher Jr.
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To recap, they used a model that made them much better at their core work and made them more productive, especially for the top researchers, but they dislike it because the “fun” part of the job, coming up with ideas, fell to a third of what it was before!
We found something that made us much much more productive but turns out it makes us feel worse... See more
We found something that made us much much more productive but turns out it makes us feel worse... See more
Rohit Krishnan • When we become cogs
There are no better examples than Harvard University and the New York Times , whose choices so often set the tone for other elite universities and publications. Both institutions may have declined in their overall control over American life, but they have remained culturally influential and economically viable by pandering to the tastes of a small... See more
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
Slow Media respect their users . Slow Media approach their users in a self-conscious and amicable way and have a good idea about the complexity or irony their users can handle. Slow Media neither look down on their users nor approach them in a submissive way.