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
Still need a study on how YouTube comments became incredibly civilized and wholesome
While Instagram comments became the absolute meanest place on the internet
Reggie Jamesx.comThe message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
LM Sacasasx.comYou Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Patrick Haggardscientificamerican.com
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
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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How writing can over-persuade us into false certainty versus podcasts’ comfort with tension, doubt, and complex realities.
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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
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When you sit down with a book, you understand the parameters of engagement. You know how long the book is. The book isn’t changing as you read it. It’s a solid, immutable thing. You and the book are on equal terms in many ways, as least from a physics point of view. You know what’s going to happen, and the book abides by its implicit contract,... See more