The pointlessness of constant self-grading
We obsess with gauging the temperature of our present reputation. The numbers are public, ticking up and down like stock prices. The internet is the grandest...
Tag: internet
Nothing is random
Discoverability will forever be twisted in the maw of internet algorithms. Nothing is ever truly random. We are data’s significant other with a bullseye on...
Discoveries are meant to be shared
One of the best things about finding something first (a piece of music, a new fashion style, an important article) is the feeling that you...
Everything is sampled, including our DNA
It’s in our DNA to sample, to take existing slices from each other to build something new. The internet is the largest cut and paste...
A medium and its message
The medium is the format in which something works. The selection of media predetermines how content gets disseminated and shared. The Internet is a mass...
What matters isn’t always popular
If you’ve ever published anything on the web you know what it’s like when all you hear are crickets. No likes, no comments, no reshares....
Faulty attention
We cultivate boredom the same way we incubate attention, that is, we latch on to things until we no longer see them. They camouflage into...
Adding to the pile
Another tweet, yet another Instagram — we keep on adding to the digital morass. Can we archive it all? Of course, we can. Google and...
Half bots, half real people
The internet is half bots, half real people. It makes you question whether humans are even evolving or code is the only advancer. Take a...
This is what happens when you reply to spam email
For three years, writer and comedian James Veitch answered spam email. “All I’m doing is wasting their time. I think any time they’re spending with me,...
Is flying the last escape in our constantly connected world? ✈️
Soon enough the good old days of shoddy airplane wifi will be behind us. The airplane seems to be the only place — the antithesis...
‘The internet’s ownership of words’
The internet owns our words. Anyone can pull up an old Tweet or Facebook post and show you ‘this is what you said.’ The internet...