Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
amazon.com
In recent years, an underlying sense has emerged that algorithmic culture is shallow, cheap, and degraded in the washed-out manner of a photocopy copied many times over.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The internet hasn’t killed eccentricity but it makes it harder for anyone who lives (at least partly) online to live a specific life. The internet either crushes specificity, mocks it, ignores it, assimilates and commodifies it, or all of the above. It leads to a personality type that Henry James described in The Wings of the Dove: “You're familiar... See more