weekly Go Flip Yourself
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weekly Go Flip Yourself
- 'frictionless' is an ennemy (by and of itself) then sure it's a question of balance
Formats Unpacked: Boiler Room
open.substack.com
Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.
om.co
As Miuccia Prada said:
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
The French modernists loathed and loved the mass media of their day | Aeon Essays
Max McGuinnessaeon.co
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity.
And it’s this disgusting aperitif that the civilised man consumes at breakfast each morning … I do not understand how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust.
Shanghai's automotive metamorphosis
arun.is
When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
Anastasia Kozyrevatheconversation.comit’s about practising mindful and healthy habits in the face of information overabundance.
To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before.