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We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
On another level, the story of the New Internet is a story of individuals and their psychologies. Over the last decade, technology workers have opened themselves up to a tremendous amount of value drift (the process in which previously steadfast values are compromised over time).
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
Christian Lorentzenvulture.com
By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose
... See moreErin told me that one of the things she loves most about the internet is that it gives her the ability to lurk. “I have this sense as a blind person that I can’t blend in,” she said. “I just feel noticed.” One day she was waiting for an Uber at the airport, and a stranger came up to her and said, “You probably don’t know this, but I take the train
... See moreAndrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Both Bluesky and Lemon8 are designed to be black holes. We are all of us craving something new, places and spaces online that we can go to feel good and have fun and be inspired. These are normal human things to want; people want to be around each other. But it is almost impossible to create or maintain that kind of space if your company's goal is
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