Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
👻 Cultural Critic - Made in the USA 🇺🇸 // It's all a game and there's 80% chance I'll change my mind.
Chad Aaron Hall
drunkonideas.carrd.co
Someone needs to create a platform for journalists on the blockchain.
As I'm watching the Danny Casolaro doc on Netflix this seem necessary.
This platform would function as a lockbox for backups of all a journalists research. It cannot be erased, it cannot be censored, it cannot be altered. If something happens to that journalist, the platform would
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In the map-with-route system (direct manipulation), the user must do some of the work of understanding what they see (the map), and developing a mental model of how to apply it to their context (reading the map). In exchange for this deeper involvement, the user learns a useful mental model (their local geography) that can help them in future uses
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“the user must do some of the work”
The duende, then, is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought.
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
Mason Currey • Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
The problem is not merely homogeneity of topic, but homogeneity of substance. If you have to publish a newsletter every week, you don’t have the room or incentive to take risks.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Humans are much better at choosing between a few options than conjuring an answer from scratch. We’re also much better at incrementally approaching the right answer by pointing towards the right direction than nailing the right search term from the beginning. When it’s possible to take a “type in a query” kind of interface and make it more incremen
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At its worst, blogging incentivizes authors to create a huge number of low quality posts.