Sublime

The real villain here is Google. Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet. This is the natural end state of that process.

Google search and Wikipedia in particular are great examples of how the internet has enabled immense scale and speed: every crawlable page on the web, every sufficiently noteworthy topic, etc, returned to you within a second. But choosing the extreme end of scale is at odds with the key property of personal knowledge management: relevance. A scient... See more

the internet’s sprawling databases, real-time social-media networks, and globe-spanning e-commerce platforms have made almost everything immediately searchable, knowable, or purchasable—curbing the social value of sharing new things. Cultural arbitrage now happens so frequently and rapidly as to be nearly undetectable, usually with no extraordinary... See more