The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
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The Medium Is The Message
There is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.
Similarly, I think people need to ask themselves – and it might be easier if we ask each other – What do you really want to be doing? How did you fall in love in the first place? People start optimizing for things like “hm, if I did this I would get 5% more traffic” or “I would get to the next follower milestone” I think because it’s visible, and i... See more
Anna Dorothea Ker • "People First" - Making Tech Work for You
Visakan on putting the goal first. What do you really want to be doing? Why? With Whom? ? How? The tools are just scaffolding, support structures, facilitators. What specific outcomes do you actually want?
Shaped intentionally or not, each medium’s fundamental materials and constraints give it a “grain” which make it bend naturally in some directions and not in others.
andymatuschak.org • Why books don’t work
an interview about instant messenger that takes place on instant messenger. the lesson is simple: writing is hard because it forces us to improve our thinking.
how instant messenger shapes thinking
It is one thing to think with a pamphlet, another to think with a newspaper, yet another to think with a televisual image, and still another to think with a meme.
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
.@jesslivingston’s blog post “The Sound of Silence” (2017) perfectly summarizes my frustrations and feelings towards social media.
At some point, you realize there might be diminishing returns to being public which is an unfortunate reality.
https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-silence... See more
People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.