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- The digital world has almost no friction.
- The physical world is full of it.
- And in certain curated space s - like the West Village, or your AI companion -friction has been turned into something you can pay to remove.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
Over the weekend, hundreds of BookTok authors gathered in the Baltimore Convention Center for the Million Lives Book Festival. The event was billed as a magical weekend where readers could meet their favorite authors, especially romance and fantasy fiction authors who are popular on BookTok.
The Fyre Fest of BookTok
Will we start seeing more FyreFest type events? Optimized for online, failure to execute IRL
Two possible paths begin to emerge.
In the first, a generation emotionally numbed at work becomes equally numb in their private lives. Interactions remain efficient but empty. Emotions fade, leaving behind a diminished sense of humanity.
But another path is possible. We could see the rise of a lucid generation. Exposed early to the risks of hyperconn... See more
In the first, a generation emotionally numbed at work becomes equally numb in their private lives. Interactions remain efficient but empty. Emotions fade, leaving behind a diminished sense of humanity.
But another path is possible. We could see the rise of a lucid generation. Exposed early to the risks of hyperconn... See more
Aurélien Fenard • Passion, Flow & Burnout
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water. Elevator operators, switchboard attendants, bank te... See more
What's in the cards?
- The digital world has almost no friction.
- The physical world is full of it.
The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
But when the stopwatch stops, we flip. We crave other people. Leisure is a hall of mirrors, and only another mortal can polish the glass. A robot could throw perfect strikes forever, but no one would pay to watch. We want the thrill of potential failure. The human tremor that turns repetition into story. Stockfish calculates deeper than Magnus Carl... See more
What's in the cards?
The closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, the more incredibly offensive it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still aren’t. So you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient, and we have all this technology for saving time, but it doesn’
... See moreKrista Tippett • Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
Yeah the squeeze bottle isn’t necessarily innovative but when it comes to olive oil, it was not something you saw before. You can’t unlearn convenience , once Millennials and GenZ got ahold of this format and embraced it, the race to squeeze olive oil began across the world from new brands to legacy, beyond olive oil to avocado and and more.
