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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
“The reason we have to be so careful about the way that we design technology,” he said, is that “they squeeze, they squish, the entire world down into that medium—and out the other end comes a different world.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
https://www.nytimes.com/by/emma-goldbergnytimes.com
But instead he cracked the supposedly uncrackable Harry Potter series and posted all seven e-books on his site, free to download—with a few changes. Now, if you want to read Potter without paying, you suffer fleeting references to a young wizard named Grumblegrits who studies at Hogwarts alongside Harry. It’s not so bad; Grumblegrits gets a few goo
... See moreRobin Sloan • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
with more regard for volume than quality—because volume, sheer time spent, is what makes money for the platform through targeted advertising.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
A Classy USB Knob For The Discerning Computerist