Interesting reflections by others

Bayo Akomolafe
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5... See more
The ingredients of ‘good’ curation
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
- Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.
- Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of that
Rachel Botsman • How to curate your life to find more meaning

It means that the really important sort of censorship we ought to worry about pertains less to the management of information, and more to the management of attention.
James Williams • Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
from ‘Stand out of our Light’ by James Wilson Williams
That is to say, our informational tools have rapidly become our informational envir-onment .
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Jamie Williams - Stand out of our light
‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’
Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)