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The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
hannemyr.comMost of this came to him in the mid-1980s, when Mr. Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the w... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
How to plan and organize a walk-and-talk, including choosing participants, setting the duration and distance, arranging meals and lodging, and managing logistics and communications.
kk.orghe was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
Recently, New York Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson and I spoke about how describing something well is both an act of incredible generosity and a literary challenge of the highest order.
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
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.”