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What if the YouTube of the future created a Direct Messaging system to allow creators and fans to communicate with each other and one another?
Eric Feng • YouTube of the future
When you take the time to sit alone with your thoughts, you can find who you want to be; not who your parents want you to be, not who your friends want you to be, and definitely not who some shyster on Instagram or TikTok wants you to be.”
(Blaise Pascal: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”)
Others say that sure, most of the stuff in the news isn’t of use, but occasionally you’ll come across some story that will lead you to actually change what you’ve been working on. But really, how plausible is this? Most people’s major life changes don’t come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thou... See more
Aaron Swartz • I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
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Even though the spread of movable type created a massive downshift in average quality, that same invention made it possible to have novels, newspapers, and scientific journals.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Here's what I've come to see as the guiding light of my life: simple ideas, explained very clearly. You only really need, like, one or two compelling ideas that you deeply understand. And then you have to be able to make other people understand them, which is the hard part. You have to distill, and in a way distillation is harder than creation. Sim... See more