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Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
In the digital world, self-nudging aims to empower people to be citizen ‘choice architects’ by designing their informational environments in ways that work best for them and that constrain their activities in beneficial ways. We can, for instance, remove distracting and irresistible notifications. We may set specific times in which messages can be ... See more
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In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with lit... See more
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with lit... See more
Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
Technology must support the work of human politics, not replace it.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
“But now it has become a much broader cultural discussion about the benefits of doing things in a more human, less frenetic manner.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- Seth Godin, “Lost in a digital world,” Seth’s Blog, Jan 10, 2011 (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/01/lost-in-a-digital-world.html).