Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
Our slow growth is a puzzle. We have generated huge amounts of useful knowledge. We have made it easier and easier to access this knowledge from anywhere in the world. We have Jstor and Google Books to dig through existing knowledge, and easy data analysis with Excel. We can collaborate with people all over the world through Zoom and Slack. And mor... See more
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"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?
What is modern literature anyway?
ellegriffin.substack.com
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
“Non-self-coercion” is the conceptual distillation of several converging threads of what you could call productivity criticism (if not outright backlash).
Pamela Hobart • Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
- at age 26, 30% of Americans live in the census tract they lived in at 16
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen em Apple Podcasts
podcasts.apple.com"Today, 85 percent of adults say they spent more time outside when they were kids than children do today."