On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
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On Information
I stopped following the news, which doesn’t mean I ignore what’s happening in the world. A system based on creating anxiety, fake urgency, and designed to keep people on their toes stays out of my life. If it’s not an in-depth analysis, a long-form article or a book, it doesn’t get my attention. This article by Rolf Dobelli is a good starting... See more
via James Clear
the ideal of limitlessness consumption serves the modern economy quite well, but it does not serve the person well at all.2 This ideal imparts to us all a spirit of scarcity that darkens our experience: not enough time, not enough attention, not enough capacity to care. But upon what does this spirit feed? It feeds, in part, on the temptation to... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
This reminds me of what Craig Mod calls ‘having clear edges’
Edges ground us. Without clear edges we don’t feel like we’re in control.
So true. Social media is like being thirsty in the ocean. You look around and all you see is ‘water’ but it’s salt water. The more you drink, the faster you die of dehydration.
From Bill Gates’ conversation with Trevor Noah on the What now? podcast, reflecting on social media and the Internet:
... See moreOur industry was very young and just incredibly fast moving, but it didn't have this, oh, this will be a tool for Holocaust denial or weird impacts. And the idea that it would directly be used for political influence, one country
From a Ted Koppel interview in Frontline: News War:
To the extent that we're now judging journalism by the same standards that we apply to entertainment — in other words, give the public what it wants, not necessarily what it ought to hear, what it ought to see, what it needs, but what it wants — that may prove to be... See more
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy... See more
James Vincent • AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born
