my mind is melting or rotting
Part of why I am writing this all out is because it feels like fiction to me. Because I feel so far from my ability to do this. I know I have it in me, of course. But I am a little bit shocked at how fried my brain feels, probably like much of the modern world’s (though not everyone, because the people sharing their 100+-books-read-this-year-lists ... See more
For the 66% of the world’s population that is online, social media has largely made permanent a world of individual realities. But it also underpinned that world with the perspective that the larger structure holding everything together is competition. In order for your reality to be the most real, it has to win.
Here for the Wrong Reasons | Are.na Editorial
Digital tech trains users to continually, constantly multitask. Basic communication find us through emails, Slacks, gChats, WhatsApps, iMessages, Instagrams, Snaps, TikToks, Zoom calls. Research shows that this behaviour may reduce our memory retention and attention spans, perhaps contributing to the fact that ADHD diagnoses are higher than 10 year... See more
Patience is a Virtue: 'Nowness' Culture and the Power of Now
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Is this the manifesto for maas?
Anxiety is endemic in the world today. Don’t let them drive your anxiety
- Marc Bertolini
Until we have metrics that distinguish between healthy and unhealthy activity, social network execs largely have to steer by anecdote, by licking a finger and sticking it in the air to ascertain the direction of the wind. Some may find it hard to believe when execs plead ignorance when alerted of the scope of problems on their services, but I don't
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This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it. How many times have you spent an hour trying to find that one Ti... See more