failings of the modern internet
THIS is the kind of information I want from the internet. The sharing of unpolished “here’s what worked for me” anecdotes and napkin sketches.
STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three
everything is too embellished, too in the output phase? what we want is more process, more reflection, more in-the-midst-of-discovery and ruminating
My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
On TikTok or Instagram, you don’t truly control your relationship with the people who care about your work: the platforms do. They can take away those audiences at any time, or change something in the algorithm that prevents you from reaching them, or put things in front of them that you would never want them to see. Those places are great for... See more
common knowledge is now harder to generate at the level of a nation, and easier to generate at the level of a group. That’s a perilous combination.
The Ruffian, Special Edition: Book Club
The omnipresent do-anything button of AI is certainly tempting. And companies including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are encouraging such behavior while hoping to prove out their investment in AI tools.
If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it
Escape: the perks of being unavailable
this is what we need when the Internet has forced us to become 24/7 accessible
Information expands to fill the space available, and in our 24/7 culture and modern media environment, the space available is infinite. This means there are now more news stories than there is actual news. W. David Marx calls this the Parkinson’s Law of Media.
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
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Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.
Confidence, optimism, and... See more
Confidence, optimism, and... See more