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His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.
“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.
“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper ask
... See moreCal Newport; • Digital Minimalism
Like newsletters, what’s said in podcasts is non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified. It’s a more forgiving space for communication than the internet at large.
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Sna... See more
Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Sna... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
The Kids are Alright: An Interview with Eugene Wei and Julie Young (Gift Culture, Part 4)
Eugene Weidanco.substack.com
Since the election, thousands have abandoned their X accounts — and while alternatives like Bluesky have seen growth, many people are turning further inward to smaller group chats, via text message or on platforms like Discord, where they can have conversations “free of algorithmic determinations.” (Re: “algorithmic determinations,” I really liked ... See more
Hobbyfications and Algorithmic Determinations
follower inflation.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party develo... See more
Jesse Walden • Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3 – Variant
It is the most elusive, those free to move without notice, who rule.” The same is true in Filterworld for those who are willing to take up whichever content and aesthetics algorithms are prioritizing…
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