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Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

just because I enjoyed a sprinkling of this content doesn’t mean I want to see it all the time.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)

yana yuhai open.substack.com

His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in a roaring attention economy. In other words, we tend to ignore his favorite maxim, from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”

nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times

“Algorithms are replacing the fundamentally human—or at least, the less digitally mediated—process

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Digital platforms are largely devoted to making users consume more, faster—think of TikTok’s frenetic “For You” feed or Spotify’s automated playlists. Curators slow down the unending scroll and provide their followers with a way of savoring culture, rather than just inhaling it, developing a sense of appreciation.

archive.ph

the bookstore was inhuman.