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The public like occupied this funny zone where the experience of liking something on social media felt private, but was public. Very VERY few things online are like this. When I toss a double tap to a dank meme from like @da_midwestern_p00syzone while half-watching Netflix’ The Starting 5, I’m mostly not thinking about how it will be perceived, eve... See more
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Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace
Unplugging Is Not The Solution You Want
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Maybe the emotional payoff of a fixed narrative is too ingrained in audiences to be eliminated. It certainly hasn’t been easy for Hustwit to adapt “Eno”to the commercial conventions of streaming and DVDs.
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emotional versus commercial - the perennial butting of heads?
There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
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people living in post-Internet society may no longer have an unconscious
— Byung-Chul Han
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How Liquid Death founder, Mike Cessario, created a billion dollar water brand
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people aren’t paying for the creative work that people actually wanna do!
sometimes it’s better to not know the rules, coming in like “you can’t do that you can’t do that”
The crowd is the flâneur’s indispensable counterpart: the crowd turns people into observable objects . In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Man in the Crowd’ the protagonist pursues an intriguing figure through the streets of London for a whole night without ever being able to see his face: in big cities, one can stroll through busy streets without recognisin... See more
Alexander • August Flânerie
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in passively consuming what I was interested in, had I given up the agency to figure out what was truly meaningful to me?
— Filterworld , pg. 224
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“It’s published here on the understanding that it will never appear online, because of course, the last thing they’d want is for their favourite places to suddenly become ordinary.”
Steve from Stack Magazine on August’s issue
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