Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
There's nothing wrong with looking at screens and consuming content.
As long as its done in moderation. Creativity feeds on making connections between different ideas.
Overconsumption on the other overwhel
... See moreThe only consistent factor connecting the otherwise desultory succession of consumer products and services is the intensifying integration of one’s time and activity into the parameters of electronic exchange.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
For most of history, humanity’s challenge was how to acquire scarce information. There was hardly any good information to be found anywhere. It was locked up in difficult-to-reproduce manuscripts or stuck in the heads of scholars. Access to information was limited, but that wasn’t a problem for most people. Their lives and livelihoods didn’t requir
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