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The way the world counts and values attention has to be completely rethought. As the market reevaluates how it counts and values attention, the companies that get it right will be well-positioned to grow and their investors will profit handsomely

I really wanna go to Santa Fe, New Mexico this year.

saving this via Austin Kleon:

New Mexico trip with the family. Meow Wolf. Ojo Caliente. Driving the desert to Yellow Magic Orchestra. Green chile cheeseburgers from McDonald’s. Morning coffee on the La Fonda balcony. Driving the Turquoise trail and the high road from Taos. Folk art museum. Picking

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Google maps only provide route options for speed and price, why not ease and beauty?

Even that, though, suggests that the company can’t entirely escape its roots: having one identity is a core principle for Facebook, which is great for advertising if nothing else, but at odds with the desire of many to be different parts of themselves to different people in different contexts. Twitter, meanwhile, is unlikely to ever recover from... See more

Why might the quality of ideas degrade when people collaborate remotely? My favorite explanation is that collaboration requires trust, and trust implies a kind of intimacy, and it’s hard to build true intimacy via Zoom and chat.

As long as the assumed purpose of media is to allow ordinary people to consume professionally created material, the proliferation of amateur-created stuff will seem incomprehensible.