seeds
To understand what’s driving this shift, you need only talk to young people. They’re saying that after years spent constructing carefully curated online identities and accumulating heaps of online “friends,” they want to be themselves and make real friends based on shared interests. They’re also craving privacy, safety, and a respite from the thron... See more
Sara Wilson • The Era of Antisocial Social Media
These anxieties reminded me of what Naomi Klein once called “the typical beauty myth double bind.” Here’s how she described it: “No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize—as her personal problem—observations she makes about aspects of the beauty myth in society.” That is, ... See more
#215: Do you think of yourself as beautiful?
The writing is all designed in advance. Is a conversation more truthful than that? Or in the context that we're talking about, is the conversation as a medium just more entertaining, a better way to grab the audience's focus?
One Thing • 🟧 Conversations Are the New Unit of Culture
Contexts worth cultivating
What matters in the age of AI is taste
like creating scenes worth having, worth belonging to
“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.”
Haruki Murakami
Tiffany Ng • Work better this year or don't, it's your life
Just like taking a picture of the same scenery everyday?
envy as tea leaves for what we really want
our national sickness: an unyielding belief in technology’s ability to allay our suffering.