Tech this out
Technology controls us. The companies that make the hardware and software hijack our attention and turn us into distraction-seeking mice. None of this is good...
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Devouring optical information
There’s optical information everywhere — on cereal boxes, to ads atop taxicabs, to the best quiche recipe on Pinterest. We are bombarded by the same...
Hearts manipulated at scale
Hearts manipulated at scale. It’s as if social media is the new religion. The double-tap ❤️ permeates everything, so much that we stopped going on...
Taste the rainbow, on loop
There it was, crushing the human will. It was the antithesis to my Kindle Jenner, a screen of sanctity for focus and learning. The lite...
Visuals: Faceless portrAits
Atop Adrift Adjacent Afar All photos by Wells Baum People from behind + Story + Favorite place + Faceless...
Human rationality and craziness
The most successful people are both rational and crazy. As much as robots and artificial intelligence threaten our creativity, there will be some people who...
How Instagram homogenizes our creativity
Instagram is a clash of sameness: the same travel pics, coffee cup shots, and innumerable selfies. The app ‘homogenizes‘ photography so that all images look roughly the...
Enjoying the silence of GIFs
The mind fills a silent GIF with sound. The flags flickering in the wind, the lightbulb dancing at a Mexico City bar, to the whistle...
Walden, water, and wifi
One day we’re going to miss the powerful silence of the natural world, the way it smells and begs for an inquisition. That’s because “most...