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The dilemma of chasing spectacle versus achieving lasting impact by starting small and cultivating deep, sustainable engagement.
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It's interesting to think about if you're playing the game of spectacle, there's only sort of one path forward, which is more or bigger. Yeah. And mischief trapped ourselves in that own game. Like we've, we built the game, we designed a game. We want it because we're a player of one. And then we essentially are trapped by the game unless we
... See moreOne of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.com
Discussing the diminishing returns of virality and the strategic pivot towards building long-term value with smaller, engaged audiences.
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And so we are certainly evaluating, like, what do we want from the work that we put out now? And what is the scale of the relationship with an audience that that work is going to have?
I actually believe that it will be very cool to spend the next three, five, maybe even 10 years engaging with much smaller audiences. It's going to take a lot of
... See moreThis is true only because we’ve changed the physics of culture and society towards “information”
When we choose to dematerialize our culture and society to become information bits and clusters. Connected over networks / media rails. We lose the literal “thing-ness” that persists over... See more
Reggie Jamesx.comA garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧭 • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more