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
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
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Patrick Haggardscientificamerican.com
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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Looking around, it’s easy to be disheartened about people and the state of the world, but on Reddit I have experienced the opposite: people naturally create community, and they are smarter, funnier, and more helpful and caring than I think we often give them credit for.
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
KG • Anthology #1: Reddit
incentives are everything, and Reddit doesn’t reward self-promoters
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
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.
Andy Matuschak • Why books don’t work
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.com