The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
sari and
The Medium Is The Message
interesting
How writing can over-persuade us into false certainty versus podcasts’ comfort with tension, doubt, and complex realities.
TRANSCRIPT
You can have epiphany through writing. I mean, I know writers always love the Joan Didion quote. I write to find out what I think. Yeah.
But weirdly, I think you have to be careful with that because sometimes writing is a process of persuading you of what the piece needs you to think. And you got to be careful not to become accidentally persuaded by
... See morethe medium - not just what the person is made of - dictates what is shared
so good - Delia Cai
The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
Ted Gioia • 13 Observations on Ritual
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
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