drink from different fountains

But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of combinin... See more

Now, the fun part. If there’s one new thing you love, time to descend into the rabbit-hole. I recommend listening to the whole discography. Watching all the movies from the director. Making your way through the creator’s oeuvre. You will develop an irreproducible connection with the work. That’s when the magic “love” comes into play.

This isn’t obli... See more

We already have too much internet inside of us.

But when I am served videos by someone who has been anointed with this stardom I don’t feel like I am inhabiting someone else’s taste but, rather, the taste of the algorithm.

but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason

values?

Well the purest way is the actually have and believe them yourself. Either through your life journey of experiences, or readings, or whatever. But if you want to actively pursue the discovery of alternative values, here is a non-exhaustive list of how to do so.

The antonym game. Taking the exercise I did of Apple previously, and defining the ... See more

(I told someone recently that the specific joy of stalking someone else’s Spotify account has been lost as more and more playlists are generated by the platform. It’s the opposite of intimacy, isn’t it? To stalk an algorithm? Like climbing a tree to look into your crush’s window and realizing someone else got there first...please don’t do this.)