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Essay: The digital death of collecting - by Kyle Chayka - Kyle Chayka Industries
Kyle Chaykakylechayka.substack.comThe original version of Discover Weekly was supposed to include only songs that users had never listened to before. But in its first internal test at Spotify, a bug in the algorithm let through songs that users had already heard. “Everyone reported it as a bug, and we fixed it so that every single song was totally new,” Ogle told me.But after Ogle’... See more
Derek Thompson • The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
... See moreA London-based DJ, artist manager, and co-founder of the iconic record label, Butterz, the prolific figure writes daily on sustainable artistic creation, electronic music, grime and rap, web3, community, social media, and his other curiosities in short notes, known as the ‘Yellow Squares’ on Instagram and Twitter. The format is simple but effective... See more
"Close The App, Make The Ting": Elijah's Yellow Squares are making a difference by cutting through the noise
Many of us now alive are in the unique position of having been so both before and after the revolution of the internet. We’re a lost group — to me, anyway, even now none of my technological habits seem inevitable. There’s still a sense that this vast binge of novelty will stop and we’ll arrive at some levelheaded equilibrium between then and now. T... See more
