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* Maybe we don't have to be exploitative or reductive in how we represent different kinds of people, just because it's the easiest way to the outcome* Maybe we can act on our principles and try to push our employers and customers to be better, even when there's a powerful man telling us otherwise* Maybe we can now start by identifying our target... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Anthony Newman [Source]
Tristan Harris says, in his 2017 60 Minutes Interview, “There’s always this narrative that technology’s neutral. And it’s up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true.”
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
A brilliant quote (of a quote) from Break free from the Internet (newsletter) that made me think of a response to an argument a friend made recently about how users should take more ownership over how they use social media — as if that’s how you combat the tyrants of Silicon Valley, and not the other way around.
After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because there aren't an overwhelming number of them, but because it never occurred to you that it might be your job to get through them all.
Oliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
Yes, yes yes! Why is that we have to overburden ourselves with things to read later (be it books, articles, newsletters and stuff)? Is it all because of FOMO? Is it because we hope knowledge will save us - so the more we plan to absorb the better?
I have a full life. A privileged life. An unendangered life. But sometimes the simple joys escape me. Joy is not always a feeling that is freely bestowed upon us, often it is something we must actively seek. In a way, joy is a decision, an action, even a practised method of being. It is an earned thing brought into focus by what we have lost — at... See more
Maria Popova • Audubon on other minds and the secret knowledge of animals, the paradox of joy with Nick Cave and Lisel Mueller, how Dostoyevsky became a writer
I struggle to let joy overwhelm me, rather than fear and self doubts and despair
Practically every person who graduates from art school will be forced to professionally reinvent themselves as something other than an artist. Because of this, the process of quitting art has been enshrined in the art world as its own respectable genre. This allows professional failure to be normalized so that nothing has to change in an art world... See more
Unfortunately stating the obvious, but finally
VERY unpopular opinion:
Humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.
Darshak Ranasubstack.com
“Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing”
Solutions beat subscriptions.
We don't want more things to read. We want fewer things to worry about.
Your subscribers aren't buying content, they're buying peace of mind. They want to stop researching, stop second-guessing, stop wondering if they're missing something important.
We don't want more things to read. We want fewer things to worry about.
Your subscribers aren't buying content, they're buying peace of mind. They want to stop researching, stop second-guessing, stop wondering if they're missing something important.
People want you to make their life easier, not to add work to their plate
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