Jesse Burkunk
@jburkunk
Strategist in media and culture, a kind of chef, collector of adventurous music and good recipes. Plays music machines.
Jesse Burkunk
- Wendell Berry’s standards for technological innovation. Hard to follow but good to measure any new technology against:
1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.
2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.
3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.
4. It should use less... See morefrom Careful technology
Americans have tripled the time spent in meetings since 2020, data from Microsoft’s suite of business software show—leaving less time for the casual interactions that social scientists say foster happiness at work.
from What Is New by workfutures
Technology Works: Mark Fell On The Anniversary Of The Battle Of Orgreave | The Quietus
- As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in isolatio... See more
- Instead of just being a destination for reading content, like Medium or Wikipedia, the cohort of knowledge-sharing startups are focused on helping people create and organize information, but also tap into crowdsourced knowledge that's then shared and published.
from GitHub but for docs: Meet the startups changing how we share what we know by Biz Carson
- Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
