Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something ess... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
Glenn McDonald,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Aaron Bach
@ajhb
removed the web browser from her phone—a nontrivial hack. “I figured I didn’t need to know the answer to everything instantly,” she told me. She then bought an old-fashioned notebook to jot down ideas when she’s bored on the tube.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
In the early days of social media, our online identities were separate from our real-world identities. On AIM, we were soccergirl7; Kim Kardashian’s Myspace name was Princess Kimberly.
Rex Woodbury • The Evolution of Social Media: Splitting Into Social and Media
Aesthetic homogeneity is a product that users are coming to demand, and tech investors are catching on
Kyle Chayka • How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
It becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.
Haje Jan Kamps • Copyright law is going to get real interesting
if you give a user community powerful enough creator tools, what they create in these worlds will be far more interesting than anything a major company can officially create.