If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
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If The Internet Was A Place
after studying in basically every library / study spot in cambridge, I've found that the best study spots are still mom & pop cafes where there is a sense of *life* vs. institutional heaviness. In these life-filled places, I've found that insights come through more easily, esp when I "borrow" from the auric field of PhD students doing psets and... See more
Patricia Moux.comI don’t know if you’ve ever seen or been to the roof of Facebook. The roof is amazingly landscaped — it has native species of plants and these meandering walking paths — and in a way, it’s exactly what I’m talking about in the book. It’s the architecture of thinking, it’s put there to encourage innovation and conversation, but just for employees.
... See moreJenny Odell • How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
All those tech-driven foods are still around, but they don’t tempt consumers the way they once did. Instead, the fastest growing categories in the food business are built on an entirely different vocabulary: gourmet, artisan, healthy, organic, nutritious, sustainable, local, homemade.
Ted Gioia • Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
However, Moments has a weakness. It’s caused users to want to leave Moments. Because it is like a town square, when you like or comment on something it’s akin to shouting in the town square. Everyone can hear you. This creates more stress for users. Moreover, as your friend list increases, the stress becomes greater.
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
― Jorge Luis Borges
Imagine if instead of approaching our computer as a cold, mechanical piece of metal and glass that receives inputs and delivers outputs, we saw it as a relationship with the emergent, ineffable internet mystic that we’re collectively creating.
How might we approach that device differently?
How might we approach that device differently?
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
If you watch television for 8 hours in a row, you might feel that you watched too much television. You would have a feeling that you wanted to get up and go do something else. Smart-phones specifically, unlike any other previous screen, are located on the body and taken everywhere. Without a conscious disconnnection practice, there is no getting up
... See moreFrom Fugazi and Beastie Boys to The Royal Society: Kickstarter's co-founder on the future of Media (DiS011 | S2 EP3)
open.spotify.comthe royal society impact
long lasting cultural impact
An ode to magazines:
you're entering a universe that's only there
convey a feeling, an amplitude, a point of view
it's an opportunity for meaning-making
what if Taylor Swift has a magazine?
all this is hard (an essay, a song) it takes time
the inward search for emotional truth; connecting with the source -- it's not about the money
doing it for yourself is underrated these days
celebrate the source, the art
a deeper definition of music journalism: to do that well means: really caring; be in it; in that scene
