Techocalypse
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
Austin Kleon • The point of this world
AI is entirely to blame for why most inboxes are useless.
The tech has made email marketers vastly more confident in their production to delivery pipeline, which means I’m receiving 5 emails when there used to be one - and getting 5 emails doesn’t 5X my interest in the sale. Of all things, it 1/5ths it with each message that arrives.
Even my text
Adam Singer • TikTok and Instagram are intellectual poison
There have to be some kind of longer-term, more drastic impact of the attention-shattering of our human experience. Too many tabs, to much switching from one stream of consciousness to another, not enough…work?
Are overnight oats ads proof that Instagram is changing reality?
The “convenience” that tech invites replaced what people/ social connections used to do. You can play a video game with someone online on the other side of the world - but now you miss the casual whateverness of your co-player sitting next to you on the couch. Or, hell, the person sitting on the other side of the Scrabble/ Chess board
