my mind is melting or rotting
Why should we care about digital hoarding? Storage is cheap, why not keep it all? To be clear, storage is cheap - cheaper than ever before. The clutter on our devices is (mostly) not a problem. The real problem is who is pushing all this clutter.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
We live in a world where we are encouraged to collect everything online. Why? To some degree, for our convenience. But the real driving force is companies can get to know us better, to better sell us more toys.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Stop doing things you hate doing - by Seth Werkheiser
Seth Werkheisersocialmediaescapeclub.substack.comMetalabel
I left social media because of my inability to control my experience. Recently, I tried to dip my toes back in the pond again, this time on a decentralized network. Even there, I found myself yanked around like a puppet. While using social media, I didn’t even notice the emotional turmoil, but returning to it felt like stepping back into the boilin... See more
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Jimmy Ceroneii
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
It’s wonderful to have the freedom to continually widen our interests. But like many luxuries, it has an insidious downside. Ever-branching possibilities make it harder for us to explore any given one deeply, because there’s always more “newness” to turn to when the old new thing has reached a difficult or boring part.
David Cain • Go Deeper, Not Wider
I’m the proud owner of a terrifying cache of 20,000 articles, almost a thousand Goodreads books, and hundreds of writing drafts.
My digital clutter is horrific but hidden. The Google Drives of the world tuck away my digital rot in tidy little boxes. Scoff all you want, I know you've got a hoard of TikToks or 50,000 photos in your own phone. We are d
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“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.” – Socrates in Plato’s “Phaedrus”