The Medium Is The Message

There is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.

“When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I’ve slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There’s the getting away, a

People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.

Israel strikes Iran. A compulsion to doom scroll, but watching myself as I do it. There’s worry, but also a scanning for both clarity and novelty. The main problem is that the same factoids are being repeated over and over; it’s quite hard to obtain new and developing information. What’s happened in the last 30 minutes? It’s a weird paradox; you ob

More insights from Ezra Klein convo with Nilay Patel:

• From Ezra: One of the messages of the medium of AI is be efficient. Don't waste your time at all this. But a lot of the big insights, happen when we're doing the hard thing when we're sitting there trying to figure out the first draft or learn about a thing or figure out what we're doing.

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phone calls are more intimate - voice in ear is literally closer than a video screen - video reminds you that you are ~not~ in same space + visual distraction of seeing yourself

when we shift our metaphors, interfaces, and incentive structures, everything changes