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  • Stare at the ocean with no phone

    Stare at the ocean with no phone

    You notice the way a raven walks. The sun’s moving lances of light piercing the dark clouds. The unfurling white banners of the crashing waves. You notice these things because it’s in your nature to notice. With a phone, you notice: Every injustice and every fear – real, imagined and exaggerated. You notice this because…

  • They Killed Normal and Called It Progress

    What we stopped making is the middle, the common culture you could just walk into without curating your identity first. We optimized it out of existence and called it progress. ….Have you noticed that the middle is gone from everything? Restaurants, companies, careers, music, retail, the economy itself. What replaced it is a barbell: one…

  • Links of the Day

    “The United States has higher social spending than Iceland, the UK, Australia or Canada.” (X

  • Links of the Day

    Witnessing modern society with an ancient lens? “Pirates of the Ayahuasca.” Author holds lots of beliefs on how other people should behave, lacks beliefs to govern her own behavior, does ayahuasca with scary results. Red hot takes on social media use All editions of Dungeons & Dragons, ranked Building community with friends

  • One problem with social media intellectuals

    One problem with social media intellectuals is that they always need to be saying something new that’s optimized for drawing eyeballs. They can be a really smart person like Dwarkesh or Hanania that has worthwhile things to say fairly regularly, but of necessity so much of their product is marketing that it’s hard to tell…

  • How to manage social media

    How to manage social media

    How to get control of YouTube. Shut off the algorithm and get a better landing page. How to get control of Spotify. Escape the algorithm, expand your listening. How to get control of Twitter. “Onboarding to Twitter is challenging. It’s not a rewarding experience for most people; your posts barely get any engagement at all…

  • Three Ways to Use Social Media Better (so it helps you)

    Three Ways to Use Social Media Better (so it helps you)

    “The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter.”Some guidelines for using Twitter as a superpower – meeting people, getting questions answered, learning. It covers how difficult it is getting traction at first. How to Be Found by Your People Online (YouTube) “Transform your Instagram Feed Into a Community Bulletin Board.” Make the Instagram algorithm biased to local…