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Curated Content
My optimism about AI is not that it will unlock some great power for us, but rather the plethora of garbage it creates — like the flourishing of SEO did — will drive people towards more curated content built on some type of connection, however tenuous, to the human curator.
Bookstores being one example (via Kottke), blogs being another.
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Rational-ish
I love this critique of Rationalism.
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Scruffy Hospitality
I wish people would lower the bar and just invite people over without worrying about impressions made by having a house not in perfect order. Let’s just be honest with each other.
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Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
Aha! This post does a great job of putting together some ideas that have been rattling around my brain for a while.
Specifically:
“saving” time and labor have become default settings and social imperatives. Rather than wisely judging what labor or time can and ought to be “saved,” our tendency is to buy into the promise indiscriminately.
It has long been my impression that historical Luddites were actively (read: violently) opposing/questioning this default. And now neo-Luddites are doing the same, though more in the realm of consumer technology as opposed to manufacturing.
What should we be asking of our technology? Well the same author addresses that:
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Third Spaces
Many people have fond memories of special conversations that transpired while they were doing the dishes with a parent or going fishing with a friend. This third thing they do together makes it easy and comfortable for them to converse more deeply, often without even making eye contact.
From Kottke
I love this concept of “third spaces”. In retrospect, I have definitely experienced this before.
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