Sarah Owen
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Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
Patricia de Vries, a research professor at Gerrit Rietveld Academie who has written about algorithmic anxiety, told me, “Just as the fear of heights is not about heights, algorithmic anxiety is not simply about algorithms.”
Kyle Chayka • The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
“The digital architecture of social media privileges the expression of emotions. It privileges the audiovisual over the written, the controversial over the moderate. All of this makes us more emotional.”
The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. In this brilliant episode of Pulling the Thread , he discusses various themes revolving around the relationship between stress and illness, a subject he's clinically explored over the course of four decades.
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen em Apple Podcasts
Known as Colour Alchemy, the dye has a formula is that it allows it to react directly to temperature and use different wavelengths of light to emphasize the color. Each color is described by the brand as “holographic” because microprisms in the formula shrink and expand to produce the different shades.
Input Magazine • The Unseen releases holographic, heat-activated hair dye
"Can I just say though that I hate the word metamodernism? If we’re going to try to define this era of literature I’d rather keep the Enlightenment going."
What is modern literature anyway?
The social app might position itself as the anti-Instagram, but it’s really just another avenue for us to pretend our lives are a highlight reel.
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
a recent study found that well over half of Gen Z have recently started a side hustle to help deal with the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis.
Adele Walton • Young people are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis
So far, the Libermans have traded around three per cent of their futures, which investors have valued at four hundred million dollars, or about a hundred million dollars per Liberman. They spent a few months in conversation with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list themselves on the stock market, which they hope to do by 2023.
Nathan Heller • Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?
