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I wish surfing the web felt more like taking a stroll around the internet. Snapping a photo here, collecting a bouquet of interesting things there, maybe slipping a postcard under a friend’s door...
Molly Mielke McCarthytwitter.comorganic tech and
The collection of names is a dictionary. It helps you map different experiences to the same name. Not knowing which name to pin an experience with is a sign of confusion - you’re missing a category. If lots of different names fit, it’s a sign of nuance and complexity. Perhaps, it’s a lollapaloza effect.
Neil Kakkar • Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
Pull back and say, "What are the messages, and what are the stories that no one has an incentive to tell?" and start telling yourself those, and see if any of your decisions change. That's one simple way - you can never get out of the pattern of thinking in terms of stories, but you can improve the extent to which you think in stories and make some... See more
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
It seems very unlikely that 200 trillion, trillion stars have been made for us. In a way, it feels like the cruelest joke in existence has been played on us. We became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us.
Kurzgesagt • Optimistic Nihilism
Most books are not half great and half horrible. And you should look at a few different parts of the book. But especially these days an author should be able to signal by putting some good stuff up front. Because people are less patient than they used to be. A nineteenth century book you need to give it more time, it may not get good until chapter... See more
Stuart Patience • Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely
However, running data centers on renewable power sources is not enough to address the growing energy use of the Internet. To start with, the Internet already uses three times more energy than all wind and solar power sources worldwide can provide.
Low-tech Magazine • How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Privacy and security in this world mostly means “which private company do you trust with your safety?” The answer often coincides with who has the largest walls and deepest moats.
Subconscious • Weird web3 energy
I believe the common prevailing metaphor—the internet as cloud—is problematic. The internet is not one all-encompassing, mysterious, and untouchable thing. (In early patent drawings depicting the internet, it appears as related shapes: a blob, brain, or explosion.) These metaphors obfuscate the reality that the internet is made up of individual... See more