Amusing Ourselves to Death
Slowness of medium
Slowness of medium is where, in my opinion, it gets even more interesting. This is where you eschew all the marketing “must-haves” and choose to focus instead on the platforms that work best for your business.
Slowness of medium is where, in my opinion, it gets even more interesting. This is where you eschew all the marketing “must-haves” and choose to focus instead on the platforms that work best for your business.
What is Slow Marketing? An Introduction for Small Businesses - Pip Christie
My love for this teaching and the seriousness with which I take it rests in part on my deep reverence for the gravity and the power of questions in human life. I think that this is undervalued in a culture that is in love with the form of words that is an answer — and the way with words that is an argument.
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
[[Amusing Ourselves to Death]] reading naturally provokes questions; whereas TV just gives info at face value
The death of the public intellectual
substack.com
The dawn of post-literate society - with Jared Henderson and James Marriott
youtube.comEven the virtues of information consumption have changed. Most people I know care more about being informed than being well read.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Whether in a closet or a car, the One to whom you speak is holy in heaven, transcendent in nature, yet relational and therefore near to you, His child. He is most interesting. Most intriguing. Not entertaining per se, but completely worthy of your mind’s focus.
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
[[Amusing Ourselves to Death]] entertainment is not the highest form of ____···
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
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Jun 5, 2022
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Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented.... See more
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
@policytensor
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Jun 5, 2022
Replying to @policytensor
Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented.... See more
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I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning. (Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves... See more