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In the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, these attitudes radically shifted. For different reasons, both sides of the political spectrum began to immensely distrust the platform monopolies. The algorithmically curated streams that had once seemed so futuristic suddenly became Orwellian. Today, it’s not only acceptable to move more of your... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, the independent scholar and writer Edward Tenner
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Many regard early newspapers as cradles of modern democracy and human rights, and there’s obvious truth to that. But Innis worried that newspapers had a structural bias: They focused culture relentlessly on the present. To make money, newspapers had to train us to come back every day—to become convinced that if we stopped keeping up, stopped checki... See more
Clive Thompson • Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
The usual cycle with social media sites is that they start out being very flexible and open, and are happy to have users even if those users are sharing content that sends other users off-site. But, over time, they try to get more content hosted on their own systems, and to promote it more relative to the competition. Google, while not a social pla... See more
Byrne Hobart • Price-First or Thesis-First Research?
A New Superpower
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
In our shift from industrial to knowledge work, in other words, we gave up automaton status for a burdensome autonomy.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought
Information Age
By contrast, at its most successful, an algorithmic “honing in” would seem to incrementally entomb me as an ever-more stable image of what I like and why. It