Do we really need more stuff?
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archive.mdI’m the proud owner of a terrifying cache of 20,000 articles, almost a thousand Goodreads books, and hundreds of writing drafts.
My digital clutter is horrific but hidden. The Google Drives of the world tuck away my digital rot in tidy little boxes. Scoff all you want, I know you've got a hoard of TikToks or 50,000 photos in your own phone. We are
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“Why don’t you just delete social media?’
“I still want to find fun new content, and not miss out and hear from my favorite thinkers.”
I grew to love my system so much that I strained it. After a few years of reading and running down rabbit holes, I found myself with 15,000 articles, 500 books to read, and more YouTube videos than I could count. I was back at the start. It was then I realized the power of social media. For all its flaws, it is a powerful filter and decision making
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Jimmy created his own feed with rss and newsletters.
“It felt like a breath of fresh air. I could control what came into my feed with ease and I could choose who to trust. The crazed fog of social media was replaced by a calm place to think.” – yeah not so much right?
This is how I felt late in 2024 when I would get busy and then come back to 100 things I still had to read or do
Why should we care about digital hoarding? Storage is cheap, why not keep it all? To be clear, storage is cheap - cheaper than ever before. The clutter on our devices is (mostly) not a problem. The real problem is who is pushing all this clutter.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
We live in a world where we are encouraged to collect everything online. Why? To some degree, for our convenience. But the real driving force is companies can get to know us better, to better sell us more toys.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
At a certain point however, everyone grew up online. And everyone was fed and informed by each other.
watching the race towards lowering the bar to entry to effectively zero with all these ai-tools out there, the only thing that comes to mind is how we’ll soon realize that it wasn’t complexity holding us back—it was the lack of an emotionally compelling goal to begin with
Samuel P. on LinkedIn: watching the race towards lowering the bar to entry to effectively zero…
f there's no images that people have been putting in, no reference points, people are just looking at surface stuff all day, and they're just going to keep making surface stuff