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this remains one of my favorite pieces of internet cultural criticism https://t.co/722WCUehm6
An humane web. It’s with this mindset — of care, and nurturing — that we can begin to build a better web for humans and the planet. We all need to start factoring sustainability into the web products we build. That should go hand-in-hand with building a more humane web, one that views the people building it, and more importantly, the ones using it,
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“The reason we have to be so careful about the way that we design technology,” he said, is that “they squeeze, they squish, the entire world down into that medium—and out the other end comes a different world.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
For this reason, websites like Craigslist and Are.na strike a chord: Their analog internet style and chunky buttons feel daring and intriguing in this modern context. Compared to the blasé, blue-branded modern tools we all spend so much of our time using today — and that contribute to that uniform sameness described earlier — these tools feel decid... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
