how to survive being chronically online
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
why some friction is a good thing.
Nonchalance achieved chalantly is nothing new, but the way it is being encouraged on social media today reflects increasing structural limitations to life online.
Kyle Chayka - The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump
Social media is no longer meant for connecting with friends; it is designed almost entirely to facilitate the following of brands and the monetizing of personalities.
Kyle Chayka - The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump
In his latest work, Program or Be Programmed , the 15th anniversary edition, Rushkoff proposes four methods to avoid being programmed by digital technology, and to instead become the programmers of our world.
What we require is to:
What we require is to:
- Denaturalize power by revealing social constructions which are ideas we merely invented, and are not pre-existing laws w
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
The hyperlink, in this sense, is the building block of the modern internet.
That manual step is something we can introduce in digital notes too.
The benefits?
You can filter ideas that are not worth coping over into your actual notes. Also, you can wrestle and develop ideas when you have more time to think about them.
a case for friction and against automation
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