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If you missed it from earlier this week: [15]I’ve put together a bunch of ways
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We’re also doing another round of “Ask A Divorced Person” — where people with
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questions for divorced people submit their questions, and a group of divorced
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people (who’ve gone through different types of divorces) answer them. You can
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get the general idea [16]here.
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If you have a question for a divorced person, you can submit it [17]here. If
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you’d like to answer questions as a divorced person, you can volunteer [18]here
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Swim You’ve Ever Taken, and this month’s “[22]What Are You Reading” (1100+
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The day before Christmas Eve, I deleted Instagram and my email from my phone.
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Facebook hasn’t been there for years, and Twitter has been gone for nearly two.
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For reasons that mystify me — maybe because I hid it on the third page — I only
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feel like getting on TikTok once or twice a month, and then I watch it like
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it’s a long movie and then leave it be. My phone was reduced to a texting
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device with a smattering of essential apps: the camera, of course, but also the
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weather, maps, browsing. I didn’t make it totally un-useful. I just
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significantly reduced its potential to fill my time.
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It was easy to ignore during the bustle of the holidays. It was usually just in
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the mornings, when I first woke up, that I realized just how much time I’d
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devoted to scrolling. There I was, looking at the weather or the snow report
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for the third time, checking our local NextDoor and feeling dismayed that no
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one had published a new sunset photo. At night, I’d look at my phone, realize
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it had nothing to offer me, and throw it onto the bedside table like a cranky
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toddler bored with a toy. I read and slept in abundance.
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It’s not that I didn’t read email, or utterly ignored Instagram — I could still
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take a look on my computer browser. It’s that I looked at them far fewer times.
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It felt like 2006 in the very best of ways: I could still communicate with
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others and periodically see pictures from their lives. It’s just that that
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communication didn’t serve as the score and meter of my life.
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I told myself I’d put both Instagram and email back on my phone at the end of
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the in-between weeks. Days kept passing, and I kept not doing it. One day I had
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to make a return in town that required a QR code; I forwarded the email to my
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mom and had her show her phone. (I also could’ve just….printed it out).
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I read the news of the Los Angeles fires on news sites and in newsletters
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instead of being barraged by it on Instagram. I open my email on my computer
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and sort through the accumulation in a massive chunk — like my PO Box, when I
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haven’t gone for a few days — instead of bit by distracting bit. I find myself
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diverting my scroll energy to Facebook, where I still have an account to access
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dahlia groups, but it feels even more gross than before: a wasteland of AI
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accounts promising blue dahlias and weight loss reels and suggestions to
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friends of friends who haven’t updated their Facebook accounts in nearly a
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decade. It’s like a frat house basement at 10 am. Why the fuck am I here.
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HOW, FOR EXAMPLE, DID THIS GET IN MY FEED
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I’ve spent more time than ever before on Substack Notes, but not posting, or
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even responding to other people’s notes. The algorithm seems to have learned
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that I like to read newsletters, not posts, and is serving me those links, not
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others’ endless discussion of what they don’t like about Notes (namely: it’s
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like everywhere else that they also don’t like).
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I’m not quitting Instagram. I may or may not add email to my phone; maybe I’ll
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just do it when I’m traveling, and it becomes my de facto computer. I’m not
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trying to convince you to do what I’ve done, and I’m not suggesting I’m a
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superior or more disciplined person for doing any of this. All I’m saying is: I
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think I’ve turned the corner. And I think a lot of you have — or are about to
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— too.
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You know how, when people get sober, or fall in love with running, or have a
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breakthrough in therapy — they can’t stop proselytizing about it? “Proselytize”
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feels like the right word here, because they really are preaching the good news
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of a new religion: a way of understanding and occupying the world. To them, it
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feels so right — and so unbelievable, that it took them this long to find it
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— that they want others to figure it out now, in less time than they did.
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But proselytizing doesn’t work, at least not how people think it does, and
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rarely in lasting ways. People make major decisions in their lives only when
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they’re ready, and they rarely reach a point of “ready” by people preaching at
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them. Instead, they slowly absorb examples, arguments, and desires for their
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own lives, and arrive at a place where they’re malleable to change.
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After years of people yelling at me in books, think pieces, and tweets (lol) to
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“break up with my phone,” “delete your social media accounts,” and “fuck Mark
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Zuckerberg,” turns out the thing that I needed was a whole conglomeration of
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quiet arguments and technological shifts that made my phone and the social
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media accounts on it feel less precious. Put differently, I haven’t come to
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value it less; instead, it’s become less valuable.
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This sounds spectacularly self-centered: that you can only quit a thing, or
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modify your usage of it, when it fails to serve you. But if we think of our
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phones and social media as addictive products, which they certainly are, then
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the classic addiction model makes sense: you only consider quitting when the
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negative impacts (the dead feeling of the soft-brain scroll, the loss of
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attention span, the weight of comparison, the exposure to trolls, the lack of
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control over the algorithm) outweigh the positive benefits (the distraction,
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the serotonin hit, the semblance of connection, the loose ties, the business
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benefits).
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My sense is that a lot of you are at a similar point. The amount of space these
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technologies take up in our lives — and their ever-diminishing utility — has
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brought us to a sort of cultural tipping point. I’ve sensed it over the last
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year, when my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation
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from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of
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brands. I could feel it in the responses to my piece, last month, to [25]
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Posting Less, but also in a slew of pieces from other writers, all tracing
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different pathways to the same conclusion: this isn’t working anymore. What if
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we stopped trying to make it?
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At this point, we’ve had social media around for long enough — and people have
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been experimenting with decreasing or eliminating it for various lengths of
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time — that there’s a pretty rich collection of writing on the topic. I thought
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it might be useful to show you a few recent examples that have set up residency
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in my brain:
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1.) “[26]You Might Just Have To Be Bored.”
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Kate Lindsay [28]points out a foundational problem with decreasing phone/app
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use: we’ve forgotten how to be bored. This has felt true to me for some time,
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but I appreciated the point that trying to re-acquaint yourself with boredom
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cold turkey can be a disaster that leads to even greater dependence.
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Lindsay has gradually decreased how she uses her phone and social apps, and in
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so doing, the feeling of necessity also decreased. For me, all of this felt
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impossible until Twitter lost its utility for me — slowly at first, and then I
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realized I just didn’t want to hang out there. At first, I felt its absence,
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but then I began leveraging other modes of communication to keep in touch — or
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just kept in touch less (and spent more time doing things that were nourishing
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in ways that had nothing to do with being online).
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And then there’s the fact that boredom is far more than, I dunno, staring out
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the window on a long car ride when you were eight years old. “Boredom,” Lindsay
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argues, “is when life happens”:
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Boredom is when you do the dishes, run the errand you’ve been putting off,
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respond to the text you’ve left on read. Boredom is when you bring a book
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to read on the subway or make small talk with the person in front of you in
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line about how slow the pharmacy is. Boredom is when you do the things that
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make you feel like you have life under control. Not being bored is why you
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always feel busy, why you keep “not having time” to take a package to the
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post office or work on your novel. You do have time—you just spend it on
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your phone. By refusing to ever let your brain rest, you are choosing to
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watch other people’s lives through a screen at the expense of your own.
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She fucking nails it, doesn’t she. How obvious, how painful, how hilarious,
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that two things that most of us feel most stifled by — our lack of time, and
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our phones — are deeply fucking related.
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2.) “[29]Not having a smartphone is entirely practical. You [30]do not need it
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[31]. This machine barely [32]does[33] anything at all.”
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[35]This argument, from Sam Kriss, is not for people who use their phones as
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their sole computing device. It’s for people who use phones as one of many
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devices to communicate and navigate the internet. Kriss concedes that the GPS/
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mapping function of the phone is quite useful — but apart from that, our phones
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really aren’t doing much that our computers don’t do, they’re just portable and
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thus available to disrupt any potential boredom.
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This point comes about halfway through Kriss’s piece, which is about giving up
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his phone for 40 days, and I appreciate how he resists the narrative that
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giving up your phone will change your life — you still have the internet, after
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all, you just have slightly less access to it, and that slight change in access
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can be meaningful, or at least clarifying.
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I’m not interested in getting rid of my phone, I’m just interested in being
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less bound to it. My experience without email on my phone for the last three
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weeks has also underlined just how stupid my previous arguments were about its
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necessity. Nearly everything can wait until I can access my computer. QR codes
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can be printed or screenshotted and texted to yourself — or you can (pretty
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easily!) download the email app for an afternoon and delete it afterward. If
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you’re holding tightly to this argument, it’s useful to think about why.
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A chaser: “Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for
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communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking
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at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for
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muting the anxieties proper to being alive.”
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3.) App Time is Time, App Energy is Energy
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I entered the New Year with so many ideas for this newsletter: bizarre, thorny,
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wonderful, generative. I felt excited about digging into the big heart of the
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book. I could attribute some of that creative energy to working less over
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break, but I’m not that person who comes back from vacation bursting to work. I
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have more newsletter energy — and more time to execute it — because I’m not
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spraying that energy all over social media.
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Here’s how Julia Fontes [37]puts it in her post reflecting on the end of her
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year of “smart phone celibacy”:
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“This post isn’t going to conclude with me quitting all the sites. I do
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think that the way that they have sucked my attention away from the writing
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and made my newsletter worse is proof enough that I don’t want to continue
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to use them in the ways the marketing gurus recommend…..What I know for
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sure is that one year with the dumb phone culminated in the publication of
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my first book, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I know that
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moderation of anything that stimulates the dopaminergic response is nearly
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impossible for me. I am done beating myself up or putting in any kind of
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moral judgment about what I should or should not be able to control.”
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I want to spend less time promoting on social media — or just scrolling, let’s
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be honest, because that’s how I usually spend time when there to “promote”
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— and more time making stuff that’s promotable, that I’m proud of, that makes
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this entire enterprise thrive.
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4.) Not Posting as Privacy
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And privacy as valuable. Our lives don’t have to become others’ cheap food for
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consumption. This one bonked me right on the head:
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Here’s Hannah Power, [39]on leaving Instagram:
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“….the weird things that have happened as a direct consequence have been,
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well, weird. for instance, I haven’t missed it once. not once! I thought I
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would. I thought I would miss sharing my curated life, my walks through the
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streets of Lisbon, my pics screaming I am on holiday, but I haven’t.
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another weird thing that has come from my absence is loving my absence. I
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didn’t realise that my privacy was luxurious and I was just giving it away
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for free to people and Mark Zuckerberg. I didn’t realise privacy was a
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gift, a privilege even. I didn’t realise how cool it was to be somewhere
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and only you and the person you’re with know it. it was weird that I didn’t
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know this, or had forgotten this - like I was under a spell.
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It reminds me of something Freya Moon [40]wrote about the Gen-Z belief that
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posting is what makes something “real” — a boyfriend, a vacation, a meal. We
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have mistaken others’ recognition of a thing for actual experiencing the thing.
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At first, when I left Instagram, I thought (embarrassingly): but how will
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people know I’m going skiing, or see all this cozy puzzling, or know that I do
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indeed have friends and I hung out with them on New Year’s Eve?
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“People” may not know, but I do.
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5.) It’s Worth Hanging Out in the FOMO
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Over the last fifteen years I’ve watched incredibly talented writers who had
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ignored social media with good reason (they liked writing more than posting,
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imagine) get pulled into starting a Twitter, an Instagram, a Facebook page,
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whatever, because a marketing person at their publisher or an agent or someone
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they know in the industry convinced them that a social media presence is
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essential to a successful book launch. I understand where this wisdom is coming
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from, but I don’t buy it. A brand-new social media profile sells nothing. A
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Substack with a handful of posts and a listing of upcoming readings does the
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same thing as sending a big email to your contacts.
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I’m not fool enough to believe that a good book will sell just because it’s
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good. But a book sells through connections, and connections — the sort that
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make someone say yes of course let’s do a Q&A for your book! — are not
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primarily forged or maintained on social media. We take a look at our past and
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think of a friend that we made on Twitter or in a Facebook Group and think this
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is why I can’t leave! But those platforms don’t do the same thing they used to.
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My Instagram account doesn’t sell books. My newsletter — different story.
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Plus: what connections are you also missing by allocating so much of your
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creative time to social media? What happens when we consider those losses?
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I like what comedian Cynthia Girardian [42]wrote about the decision to delete
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her Instagram account:
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“….If I started on Instagram at 20 and I am now at the ripe age of 33, that
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means my whole adult life so far, I’ve spent it developing some sort of
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addiction to likes and external validation. And this means I will probably
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suffer from withdrawal syndrome from time to time: sometimes, since being
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off Instagram, I feel disconnected, isolated and lonely….Nothing seems to
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keep me as connected and as chronically online as Instagram and my 12.6K
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followers did, and so the questions remain:
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👽 Am I sabotaging my opportunities?
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👽 Are my friends and acquaintances going to forget about me?
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👽 Am I becoming the weird friend?
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👽 How am I going to establish contact or keep in touch with people / brands
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/ potential work gigs from now on?
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👽 How am I going to share with the world the things I do?
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Not to make this my entire personality from now on, but to my own surprise,
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I want to offer some resistance and explore these uncomfortable feelings
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for a while. I am low-key excited, and I am certain that with time and
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space, all these questions will answer themselves.”
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In other words: what happens when we reintroduce the friction that social media
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smoothed? What’s worthwhile about re-learning some of the connective skills
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we’ve lost?
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This past Tuesday, I was reading the “What Are You Reading” thread and realized
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I’d missed [43]the big investigative piece about Neil Gaiman being an absolute
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creeper, which came out the day before. At first, I felt out of touch — and
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then I realized 1) I could go read it right then, and it would still have the
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same import; and 2) I could and should be more active about just visiting the
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websites of the publications I value and love, something I used to do every
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single time I opened up the computer. There are so many other ways to use the
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internet — some of them from our very recent past.
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Many of you have resisted social media altogether. Others have always had a
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distant or measured relationship with it — or left when these companies proved,
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again and again, that they made you (and others) into a person you didn’t
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particularly like, or that the technology itself was so readily manipulated to
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serve our worst impulses. But a lot of us are sitting here with lives, both
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personal and professional, intertwined with these apps. We’ve sunk so much time
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into them; they hold not insignificant chunks of our recent past. We’ve
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negotiated misgivings and ambivalence; we’ve crafted complex and simple
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justifications to stay.
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So what is it about this moment that makes leaving — or significantly
|
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moderating — feel possible? The platforms feel toxic, but they’ve felt toxic
|
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for a while. They’re more toxic and they’re degrading, overridden by brands and
|
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AI. Their utility for connection (the thing that brought us there in the first
|
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place!) has deteriorated to the point of uselessness. The cultural norms of
|
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2005 to 2025 were produced and refined via social media, but the homes we built
|
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there — the understandings of self — feel unwelcoming and alien.
|
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|
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The world, filtered through the apps, is not the world we want for ourselves.
|
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And in many cases, it’s not the actual world we inhabit.
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In a recent piece for the New York Times, Ezra Klein [44]argued that this
|
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feeling of discombobulation can be traced to “the unsteady, unpredictable
|
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emergence of a different world.” He’s talking about Trump, of course, and the
|
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anti-democracy politics he aims to ram through — but also AI’s maturing power
|
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and a rapidly warming planet that offers peepholes into an unspeakably hostile
|
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future every month. He concludes the piece with a quote from Antonio Gramsci:
|
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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the
|
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time of monsters.”
|
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|
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Climate monsters, cultural monsters, political monsters. You can’t fight them
|
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by consuming news, or quote-tweet dunking, or sharing a graphic. You can fight
|
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them through connection. Social apps might be the “easiest” place for that to
|
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happen — and by that, I mean it might the place with the least immediate
|
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friction — but that does not make them the place for them to gain and exercise
|
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power. If this is indeed a new world, we need new tactics, new tools, and new
|
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energy. None of which are hiding on Instagram.
|
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|
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I’ve spent the last year oscillating between anger and disenchantment, hope and
|
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disillusionment. I want to break everything but also mend it. At times I want
|
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to hibernate, to turn inward, to fortify what’s mine — but also understand how
|
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vulnerable that will make me to all the challenges to come. How do we relearn
|
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how to talk to one another? To live with each other? To think and act with
|
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creativity and intention? How do we lead the lives we actually want to live,
|
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marked by care and passion?
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Dude, I’m working on it! A lot of us are. If someone has an easy answer for
|
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you, they have some sort of privilege that’s allowed them to shield themselves
|
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from the complications of the modern world. What I do know is this: I have a
|
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lot more time to think about these questions, to access empathy and so many
|
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other emotions, to experience the textures of each and every day, since I
|
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started spending less time on the sites where I’m supposed to document them.
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For our discussion today, I don’t want to talk about the reasons why you have
|
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to stay — you don’t need to make the case. Everyone’s dealing with their own
|
||||
situation in the way that feels right to them. There is still very real utility
|
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in many corners of social media and moving a community off Facebook is not
|
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simple.
|
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Instead: how are you *feeling* about your current use? What would you like to
|
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change? Which argument to stay now feels flimsy *to you*? And do you also feel
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like we’re reaching a pivot point, or am I just high off all my new free time?
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part one
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Posted on Jan 17, 2025
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|
||||
For fun, I like to invent scenarios and then build a tech setup for it. One of
|
||||
the builds I think about a lot is having a completely offgrid (and obviously
|
||||
offline) portable internet-in-a-box. This is the first steps in that build,
|
||||
laying out the requirements and choosing the hardware.
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||||
|
||||
The scenario
|
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|
||||
Let me define what is a portable internet-in-a-box.
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||||
|
||||
In this scenario, I am imagining I am going to be living in an offgrid cabin
|
||||
for a year. The cabin has limited power availability and zero internet access.
|
||||
No home internet and no mobile data. Over the course of a year, I want to be
|
||||
able to consume media (TV, movies, music, books, podcasts), access information
|
||||
about topics (e.g. Wikipedia), read info technical websites (e.g.
|
||||
StackExchange; AskUbuntu), and do hobby projects on a PC (install packages and
|
||||
apps). After all, playing with computers is my hobby.
|
||||
|
||||
Even though I’m a bit of a prepper, this isn’t a prepper build (it could be
|
||||
used in that scenario, too, I guess). In a prepper build, I would want life
|
||||
saving information such as medical info, foraging for food, topographical maps,
|
||||
etc. My offgrid scenario here will have some of this information, I will be
|
||||
living in an offgrid cabin for an entire year. But, this isn’t a doomsday
|
||||
build.
|
||||
|
||||
Project boundaries
|
||||
|
||||
I do have some rules for this build:
|
||||
|
||||
• Cannot spend any money, not that I have any money to spend. Needs to all
|
||||
done with parts I already own.
|
||||
• It should be a finished build. Can’t “borrow” parts from something else
|
||||
just for the build and then disassemble this build to put things back.
|
||||
• The project has to be fun. Don’t get hung up on having the “perfect” setup,
|
||||
have fun building a potentially and most definitely useless PC.
|
||||
|
||||
Project details
|
||||
|
||||
The requirements for this build a low. I am not anticipating a lot of people
|
||||
accessing the data and all the media is formatted to reduce storage space,
|
||||
which also makes the hardware requirements lower. The things I want this build
|
||||
to do is possible by any computer in the last 10-15 years.
|
||||
|
||||
MVP requirements
|
||||
|
||||
• Play SD videos with captions
|
||||
• Listen to music and archived podcasts
|
||||
• Read eBooks
|
||||
• Run a web server
|
||||
• Use aptly on localhost as the apt packages source
|
||||
• Install archived flatpaks and Docker containers as necessary
|
||||
• Play Luanti with VoxeLibre at 45+ FPS (essentially a Minecraft clone)
|
||||
• Play selection of retro games with wired gamepad
|
||||
• View/edit markdown notes
|
||||
• View/edit doc/xls files
|
||||
• Open encrypted volumes
|
||||
• Run Kiwix locally and with Docker for multi-device access on small LAN
|
||||
• Access password and MFA databases (just in case)
|
||||
• Run for 8 hours from 170Wh power station
|
||||
|
||||
I am choosing this power station as the energy source because it can easily be
|
||||
charged from a single solar panel. Part of the scenario is figuring out how to
|
||||
keep consistent power to the build without using the limited power available to
|
||||
the cabin. The build needs to be standalone.
|
||||
|
||||
Networking
|
||||
|
||||
Separately but a part of this build, is a small GL.iNet travel router. This is
|
||||
part of the project so there can be a lightweight LAN. The GL.iNet travel
|
||||
router uses around 1w and runs from USB power.
|
||||
|
||||
I imagine with this scenario I am still bringing some sort of a mobile device
|
||||
and I’d like to access the data on the build from that mobile. I also doubt I
|
||||
would be going without my wife, who will also want to access the data from her
|
||||
mobile.
|
||||
|
||||
Choosing right machine
|
||||
|
||||
Lenovo Ideapad 110s
|
||||
|
||||
I picked up the [7]Ideapad 110s from the Goodwill Finds site for $20 a year ago
|
||||
or so. I as looking around at used ultra-portable laptops and I figured $20
|
||||
(plus shipping) was low enough to try it out. It didn’t work out for me as an
|
||||
EDC laptop, but I never stopped tinkering with it.
|
||||
|
||||
The specs:
|
||||
|
||||
• 11 inch 1366x786 screen
|
||||
• Intel Celeron N3060 (Braswell) CPU. Dual core; No hyper-threading; 1.6 -
|
||||
2.4 GHz.
|
||||
• 2 GB DDR3L soldered RAM
|
||||
• 32 GB eMMC flash storage
|
||||
• A 2280 m.2 SSD slot with a 128 GB off-brand SSD installed (my addition)
|
||||
|
||||
Notes on testing this laptop for the builld:
|
||||
|
||||
• External USB drive works fine, mounts no issues. There is a single USB 3.0
|
||||
port, so speeds are good.
|
||||
• Video playback is fine for the standard definition quality TV shows,
|
||||
movies, and YouTube videos.
|
||||
• Is x86, so will run the flatpaks and docker containers I have in my offline
|
||||
archive.
|
||||
• Played Luanti and with some tweaks it can run between 40-60 FPS.
|
||||
• Battery constantly runs out, even when off. So, when plugging in to use,
|
||||
there is a spike of energy usage (40 watts) while it fills the battery.
|
||||
Once the battery was full, it settled around 8w. Interestingly, with the
|
||||
battery disconnected, it uses less power (5w), even when the battery is
|
||||
full.
|
||||
• When playing videos or Luanti, no noticeable spike in energy usage.
|
||||
Charging still uses the most energy. Once full, no real spike. Went up to
|
||||
10w.
|
||||
• Playing a video at full screen with brightness at max and sound on, while
|
||||
also accessing a streaming a video to another device, this laptop only used
|
||||
16w under that load.
|
||||
• Since this device has a screen, keyboard, and trackpad built it, it is an
|
||||
easier setup than using the NucBox G3 with the lapdock. Less parts, less
|
||||
cables. But, significantly less compute and performance.
|
||||
|
||||
GMK NucBox G3 + UPerfect Lapdock
|
||||
|
||||
This is a minuscule x86 [8]mini PC my wife got me for my birthday last year. It
|
||||
performs surprisingly well for how small of a package it is.
|
||||
|
||||
The specs:
|
||||
|
||||
• Intel Alder Lake N97 CPU. Quad core, no hyper-threading; 3.6 GHz clock
|
||||
speed
|
||||
• 12 GB soldered DDR5 RAM
|
||||
• 256 GB 2242 m.2 NVMe SSD
|
||||
|
||||
Although this setup has much more compute, the NucBox doesn’t have a screen or
|
||||
any peripherals. Building with this PC requires significant more work and much
|
||||
more complicated than an all-in-one device. Additionally, it uses more power
|
||||
than the Lenovo laptop. I have to weigh out if the increased power usage and
|
||||
setup complexity are worth the extra compute.
|
||||
|
||||
Testing results:
|
||||
|
||||
• Lapdock uses 11w while charging (and screen on) and 17w charging screen off
|
||||
(weird).
|
||||
• NucBox + lapdock power on surge to 25w
|
||||
• Interesting thought: NucBox surges up to 28w while under load installing
|
||||
Debian. I think it can peak around 40w. With the battery removed from the
|
||||
Lenovo, it can never peak this high.
|
||||
• Luanti gameplay locked at 60 FPS at default settings (no tweaks), but using
|
||||
34w.
|
||||
• Idles at 24w when screen is off. That’s weird. With no display, it must be
|
||||
raising the CPU usage.
|
||||
• 28w with external drive connected and watching movie.
|
||||
• Something I’m discounting here is the lapdock charging. The lapdock is
|
||||
using 11w to charge. Take 11w off of my totals and the usage is way lower.
|
||||
• So, uses 23w with the lapdock fully charged, while playing a movie at max
|
||||
brightness and sound on. The Lenovo in the same scenario uses 14w.
|
||||
|
||||
RPI + UPerfect Lapdock
|
||||
|
||||
This is the RPI 2 Model B. Threw it in, expecting it to use less power, but
|
||||
unsure how it will perform. My expectations were low going into the testing.
|
||||
|
||||
• The desktop performs surprisingly well.
|
||||
• Like the NucBox, it does not have a screen or any peripherals. All this has
|
||||
to be added to the build and increases complexity.
|
||||
• CPU and RAM usage is low when playing video, another surprise.
|
||||
• Video playback was missing a lot of frames, so won’t work for my use case.
|
||||
It absolutely has to play all content smoothly.
|
||||
• It was using 18.5w altogether, with external drive and lapdock. This is
|
||||
roughly the same, if not higher, than the Lenovo, but being an unsupported
|
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arm32 chipset and still needs the lapdock. It is only about 5w less than
|
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the GMK.
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Hardware choice
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|
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After all my testing, I decided to go with the Lenovo Ideapad 110s laptop. The
|
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main reason is it has significantly less complexity in the setup and I think I
|
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can work around the lower compute performance. In addition to have the screen,
|
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keyboard, and trackpad all build it, it also has an SD card slot, a headphone
|
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jack, and its own battery.
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|
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The NucBox would perform better, but is essentially useless without any
|
||||
peripherals. In my scenario I might regret not having more compute. But, if the
|
||||
lapdock dies or a keyboard fails, I have no way of using it. This is the same
|
||||
scenario for the Pi. Plus, they both use more energy, which would cut down on
|
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runtime from a small power station.
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|
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The next posts will be about what data I will be accessing, how I organized
|
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that data, and what I’m using to access or serve that data.
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Thank you for reading! If you would like to comment on this post you can start
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a conversation on the Fediverse. Message me on Mastodon at [9]
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@cinimodev@masto.ctms.me. Or, you may email me at [10]
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blog.discourse904@8alias.com. This is an intentionally masked email address
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that will be forwarded to the correct inbox.
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• [11]offgrid
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• [12]offline
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• [13]projects
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• [14]prepper
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[15] [16] [17] [18]
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2025 © Dom Corriveau | [19]Never Monetize | [20]A.I. policy
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[1] https://blog.ctms.me/
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[2] https://blog.ctms.me/about
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[3] https://feed.ctms.me/
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[4] https://blog.ctms.me/index.xml
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[5] https://blog.ctms.me/uses/
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[6] https://blog.ctms.me/wants/
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[7] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaPad-110S-N3060-32-GB-Subnotebook-Review.257770.0.html
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[8] https://www.gmktec.com/products/intel-alder-lake-n97-mini-pc-nucbox-g5
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[9] https://masto.ctms.me/@cinimodev
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[10] mailto:blog.discourse904@8alias.com
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[11] https://blog.ctms.me/tags/offgrid
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[12] https://blog.ctms.me/tags/offline
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[13] https://blog.ctms.me/tags/projects
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[14] https://blog.ctms.me/tags/prepper
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[15] https://github.com/cinimodev
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[16] https://masto.ctms.me/@cinimodev
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[17] https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau
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[18] https://blog.ctms.me/index.xml
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[19] https://www.nevermonetize.com/
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[20] https://blog.ctms.me/ai-usage
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CJ THE X
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I don’t want to criticize people who seem to like the situation… Instead I’ll
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focus on people who are trying to do something other than be a number, even as
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they are subsumed by the new reality of number supremacy.
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[Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier
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p.66]
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[Untitled]
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In our critique of surveillance capitalism and our quest for collective beauty,
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it is imperative to hone in on ideas that we can actually act upon.
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||||
I am not interested in paying lip service to anti-capitalism online for profit,
|
||||
while also shrugging and going “wellll capitalism so big and bad that I have no
|
||||
choice but to participate”, then proceeding to haplessly ride that self
|
||||
righteous train of impotent performativity up into celebrity and success.
|
||||
|
||||
Make no mistake: maintaining the pathetic stance of [7]“Ugh, Capitalism” is an
|
||||
extremely lucrative affair. Leftist posturing is a market. These leftist
|
||||
influencers are making money. They know how to run a business. I do too, and I
|
||||
am happy that I do. I think I do a good job of it. But I want to contribute to
|
||||
society beyond my own success, and beyond empty words signalling abstract
|
||||
idealistic moral positions that seldom help anyone.
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, at one level I simply want to make beautiful things that I think are
|
||||
beautiful and I am happy to be funded in order to do that. That’s me, my life,
|
||||
my art, my business. But I don’t think my life is just about me getting the
|
||||
things I want and doing the things I want to do, even if there’s an industry
|
||||
that is built for people like me to do that. I don’t want to win the game of
|
||||
exploitation, I want to improve the conditions of the game. I want to do things
|
||||
to improve the lives of my audience and the systems we all rely on.
|
||||
|
||||
I’m not God, I’m not a politician, I can’t fix everything and I don’t
|
||||
understand everything. I am an artist and an online person, so naturally I
|
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think a lot about how to be an online person artfully.
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|
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Three Propositions About Social Media:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1. There is something insidious about social media platforms that rely on the
|
||||
advertiser model to make money.
|
||||
|
||||
This business model incentivizes manufactured addiction, anxiety and negative
|
||||
emotion. A populace of phone users who are addicted, anxious, and angry and
|
||||
will be constantly glued to social media platforms, especially if social media
|
||||
is also their primary place to receive news and the place they enact many of
|
||||
their relationships.
|
||||
|
||||
Advertiser driven platforms are paid for not by users, but advertisers. The
|
||||
advertisers pay to display their ads wherever conscious human beings are
|
||||
looking, and the more people are looking the more advertisers are willing to
|
||||
pay. Therefore it is financially beneficial for the advertiser-reliant social
|
||||
media platform to make their app inherently addictive, and to make it feel a
|
||||
seamless extension of reality. Engagement is optimized when social media is a
|
||||
limb that users unthinkingly use when they are bored, horny, lonely, or are in
|
||||
search of serious conversations about the issues of the day (real or fake). It
|
||||
is ideal if your phone is impossible to put down and you perceive the platform
|
||||
as “the everything app” where you find your jokes and your friendship and your
|
||||
entertainment and your philosophy and your discourse and your history and your
|
||||
news and alternative news and your activism and your meaning.
|
||||
|
||||
The unfortunate truth is that negative emotion engenders anxious attachment and
|
||||
addiction far more effectively than positive emotion. Feelings of satisfaction
|
||||
allow you to put down the tool, while dissatisfaction causes you to continue
|
||||
using it in search of more stimulation. In order to optimize engagement a
|
||||
platform must provide a steady stream of stimulation while instilling a
|
||||
constant feeling of dissatisfaction and incompleteness.
|
||||
|
||||
This renders collective insanity rational. When we constantly use social media,
|
||||
we function as free labour for the social media platforms and the value of
|
||||
their advertiser space skyrockets. We are the product, the platform curates us
|
||||
so that we are optimally addictive and addicted, and advertisers finance this
|
||||
process with exorbitant enthusiasm.
|
||||
|
||||
This is not a conspiracy theory, this is literally their business model.
|
||||
|
||||
[IMG_9300-scaled]
|
||||
|
||||
[Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron
|
||||
Lanier, p. 91]
|
||||
|
||||
2. Humanity will not throw away all of the positives that social media has
|
||||
given us, so we cannot outright annihilate social media.
|
||||
|
||||
And it’s unclear if it would be desirable to do so. We cannot go backwards.
|
||||
Humanity at large cannot be expected to delete all of their social media
|
||||
accounts without proper incentive to do it.
|
||||
|
||||
Likewise, massive capitalistic tech companies will not willingly sacrifice
|
||||
profits. They will not change unless forced, or it somehow proves profitable to
|
||||
do so. So how do we siphon users out of this vortex? Is it possible to reform
|
||||
such a broken system? I am in agreement with technocrats that the valuable bits
|
||||
are genuinely valuable. How do we keep the good while culling the bad?
|
||||
|
||||
3. We can’t go back, but we can resurrect beautiful ideas from the past,
|
||||
manifesting them anew and reincorporating them into reality.
|
||||
|
||||
Even if it’s not optimally profitable, we can inspire collective action to pour
|
||||
our energy and attention into other models. If you have the money, if you have
|
||||
the skill, if you have the passion, if you have the community, throw that
|
||||
energy into alternatives that are beautiful, effective, and accessible.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
I am not a person who believes humans are horrible and we need to beat back
|
||||
with a stick to make them behave like civilized animals. I believe that people
|
||||
respond to Quality. Critique and description is fine, but it doesn’t do
|
||||
anything if you provide no actual alternative course of action. We cannot stop
|
||||
at criticizing hegemonic reality, we must create alternative courses of action
|
||||
that actually work. They have to be better. And if you have a Quality idea but
|
||||
you are not presenting it in a Quality manner, then the work is not done.
|
||||
|
||||
So this is what I am happy to consider my primary personal political project. I
|
||||
am interested in improving the internet’s ability to serve human values, human
|
||||
communities, and human thought.
|
||||
|
||||
I sincerely believe that if this is accomplished, it will be an intrinsic good
|
||||
for individuals and society. Improving our means of communication will also
|
||||
serve as a universal instrumental good improving our efficacy at solving
|
||||
problems of a greater scale. If we have new ways to interface, we have new ways
|
||||
to think, and if we’re passionate and thoughtful about designing these new
|
||||
interfaces, then we may think clearer than we do now. Hopefully communal
|
||||
clarity is something we all can agree is in need of improvement.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
An Extremely Short History of The Addiction Economy:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Web 1.0 was the first manifestation of the internet. It was radically different
|
||||
from what we experience online today. Sometimes called the “read-only” web, it
|
||||
was much more like a library than an interactive melting pot. Users could find
|
||||
information, but it was not easy to generate new content.
|
||||
|
||||
The evolution from this less accessible state of the internet into the
|
||||
leviathan we see today is not well defined, but the overwhelming force that
|
||||
permanently locked us into our new reality is social media.
|
||||
|
||||
Ease of access, ubiquity of use, and user generated content. This is Web 2.0,
|
||||
and the way we finance this free democratic user-friendly experience is through
|
||||
advertising.
|
||||
|
||||
Jaron Lanier is perhaps the single most sophisticated voice in tech critique
|
||||
that the digital age has seen. Since the turn of the century he has been
|
||||
sounding the bell on decadent mythologies and business practices within the
|
||||
tech industry, and his analysis has only proven increasingly relevant year
|
||||
after year. This isn’t due to genius or prescience so much as simple attention
|
||||
and honesty. Lanier is a software developer, a tech enthusiast who has worked
|
||||
within Silicon Valley as it rose to dominance. Far from a Luddite outsider, he
|
||||
is one of the fathers of Web 2.0. He has sold a company to Google and was the
|
||||
founder of the company that sold the first VR headset. Lanier is wonderful at
|
||||
describing the design of the internet because he is one of the people who
|
||||
designed it.
|
||||
|
||||
He describes the energy of early internet innovation as a contradictory fusion
|
||||
of utopian socialist and entrepreneurial libertarian values:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
I think the fundamental mistake we made is that we set up the wrong financial
|
||||
incentives, and that’s caused us to turn into jerks and screw around with
|
||||
people too much. Way back in the ’80s, we wanted everything to be free because
|
||||
we were hippie socialists. But we also loved entrepreneurs because we loved
|
||||
Steve Jobs. So you wanna be both a socialist and a libertarian at the same
|
||||
time, and it’s absurd. But that’s the kind of absurdity that Silicon Valley
|
||||
culture has to grapple with.
|
||||
|
||||
And there’s only one way to merge the two things, which is what we call the
|
||||
advertising model, where everything’s free but you pay for it by selling ads.
|
||||
But then because the technology gets better and better, the computers get
|
||||
bigger and cheaper, there’s more and more data — what started out as
|
||||
advertising morphed into continuous behavior modification on a mass basis, with
|
||||
everyone under surveillance by their devices and receiving calculated stimulus
|
||||
to modify them. So you end up with this mass behavior-modification empire,
|
||||
which is straight out of Philip K. Dick, or from earlier generations, from
|
||||
1984.
|
||||
|
||||
[8]Jaron Lanier Q&A on Intelligencer
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The price of free internet is steep. What seems like democracy and freedom
|
||||
actually chains us to this process of automated mass engineering, slowly
|
||||
sharpening society into shorter attention spans, starker polarization, and
|
||||
anxious addiction. When the product is free, you are the product.
|
||||
|
||||
I don’t seek to deny any of the wonderful things that Web 2.0 has brought
|
||||
humanity. I am a child of the internet like everyone else in my generation. My
|
||||
job is online, my art is online, my soul is online. But this just means it is
|
||||
profoundly important that we strive for beauty online, remain critical of the
|
||||
internet, instead of just accepting whatever state of affairs is dominant or
|
||||
optimally profitable.
|
||||
|
||||
Lanier argues that the next step forward for humanity is to divest from the ad
|
||||
model. We can retain the wonderful innovations of the Internet without the
|
||||
insidious incentive structure spreading hairline cracks through our individual
|
||||
and collective psychologies.
|
||||
|
||||
[9]————————
|
||||
|
||||
I think they’ve got to either choose socialism or capitalism cause this unholy
|
||||
combination we have is the worst of both worlds. If they want to choose
|
||||
socialism we could say the internet should be like the public library and that
|
||||
could work, if they want to choose capitalism we should say social media and
|
||||
search should be like Netflix you pay for them but they should also be kind of
|
||||
like Etsy or Patreon or something where you can make your living from them
|
||||
instead of being put out of work by the AI robots that are supposedly going to
|
||||
do that…
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[10]Jaron Lanier Q&A on Intelligencer
|
||||
|
||||
———
|
||||
…
|
||||
.
|
||||
|
||||
Which brings us back to capitalism, socialism, and gradients.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Two Radical Solutions That I Like But You Don’t:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
I am completely comfortable revealing my personal biases here: My heart leans
|
||||
left. I was totally sucked into online rabbit holes that encouraged my interest
|
||||
in communism and socialism in my early twenties, and I remain interested in
|
||||
those systems of thought.
|
||||
|
||||
However, as I became prominent online and noticed young people adopting and
|
||||
parroting my stated political and philosophical beliefs, I made it a priority
|
||||
to not endorse ideas carelessly with my platform. Just because I am a Christian
|
||||
and I read the book of Acts as a call to communal living, communitarian values,
|
||||
and collective ownership of resources, does not mean that I understand how such
|
||||
ideas can be implemented in complex modern society. I am not a politician or an
|
||||
economist, and I don’t understand enough about how the structure we live in
|
||||
currently works to suggest we have a revolution to change it from the ground
|
||||
up. I would not know how to reconstruct it.
|
||||
|
||||
Furthermore, I do not see the intrinsic value in dwelling on juvenile utopian
|
||||
visions of ideal societies that we do not exist inside of and that we cannot
|
||||
manifest in our lifetimes. Criticizing flaws in our society is useful, just as
|
||||
theorizing about paradisal states that we would like to move towards can be
|
||||
useful, but only if these activities lead us to take tangible action in the
|
||||
world that we really do live in.
|
||||
|
||||
If your critiques of capitalism are just a pacifier you suck on to ease your
|
||||
moral conscience as you strive for money like the rest of us, your worldview is
|
||||
not interesting to me. If you genuinely want to change and improve society, you
|
||||
must work on a gradient.
|
||||
|
||||
The people I respect politically tend to have the following three qualities:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1. A vision of what you would like to see in a perfect world.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. Curiosity and appreciation for the complexity of the world we currently live
|
||||
in.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Preferences between currently existing options according to their relative
|
||||
closeness to your vision.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
If you don’t have these things, do you even have any politics that you believe
|
||||
in? Or are you just Ugh, Capitalism-ing your way through life, or parroting bad
|
||||
faith Red Scare propaganda about secret Marxist plots, or blaming things that
|
||||
feel bad on secret cabals of cartoonishly powerful evil villains?
|
||||
|
||||
The thing that all of those amorphous spectres have in common is that such an
|
||||
impossibly vague and pervasive entity cannot be realistically negotiated with
|
||||
or defeated, and you can’t really do anything practical about it in your day to
|
||||
day life. It requires no specific action, no realistic knowledge about the
|
||||
world. They are thought terminating cliches that you can lazily indulge in
|
||||
while participating in society and enjoying public resources and drowning in
|
||||
social media addiction uncritically.
|
||||
|
||||
I no longer really care about what label people want to slap on me politically.
|
||||
I just care about making the world better, and giving people better tools with
|
||||
which to do that. So I happen to be a fan of both of Jaron Lanier’s proposed
|
||||
solutions to the social media dilemma.
|
||||
|
||||
The first one is the socialist one, which sounds great to me.
|
||||
|
||||
Allow for public control of this “Digital Town Square”. Nationalize the thing.
|
||||
Take away the advertisements and profit incentive, let us fund it with our
|
||||
taxes and vote on how it should work and treat it like the national resource it
|
||||
is. It can be free and publicly funded like our libraries and our roads and our
|
||||
parks.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[11]————
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Okay, Facebook is not going to be a business anymore. We said we wanted to
|
||||
create this thing to connect people, but we’re actually making the world worse,
|
||||
so we’re not gonna allow people to advertise on it; we’re not gonna allow
|
||||
anybody to have any influence on your feed but you. This is all about you. We’
|
||||
re gonna turn it into a nonprofit; we’re gonna give it to each country; it’ll
|
||||
be nationalized. We’ll do some final stock things so all the people who
|
||||
contributed to it will be rich beyond their dreams. But then after that it’s
|
||||
done; it’s not a business. We’ll buy back everybody’s stock and it’s done. It’s
|
||||
over. That’s it.
|
||||
|
||||
That’s one option. So it just turns into a socialist enterprise; we let it be
|
||||
nationalized and it’s gone.
|
||||
|
||||
[12]Jaron Lanier Q&A on Intelligencer
|
||||
|
||||
[13]—–—
|
||||
|
||||
Love it.
|
||||
|
||||
However I can’t imagine this will occur easily. Even persuading a populace to
|
||||
democratically endorse regulations can be a difficult task. I personally am
|
||||
happy to advocate in favour of socialist democratic control over such valuable
|
||||
resources, but that requires such sentiment to be extremely popular, and that
|
||||
is the task of a lifetime.
|
||||
|
||||
Hence the alternative option: Pay for your internet.
|
||||
|
||||
This is also a hard sell, cause no one likes to pay for things they currently
|
||||
have for free, and some perceive this proposition as a cruel barrier of entry.
|
||||
But there are real benefits to this model, as it that shifts money closer
|
||||
towards those who actually generate the value and away from the pockets of our
|
||||
exploitative digital landlords.
|
||||
|
||||
If your social media platform is something you subscribe to for ten dollars a
|
||||
month, it is less incentivized to induce addiction. It has less incentive to
|
||||
permeate every facet of your life and maximize engagement at all costs. In
|
||||
theory such a design has a higher chance of being what Ivan Illich calls a [14]
|
||||
Convivial Tool:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by
|
||||
anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose
|
||||
chosen by the user. The use of such tools by one person does not restrain
|
||||
another from using them equally. They do not require previous certification of
|
||||
the user. Their existence does not impose any obligation to use them. They
|
||||
allow the user to express his meaning in action.
|
||||
|
||||
Tools For Conviviality – Ivan Illich p. 35
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ideally, this is how we would truly see social media, as the limited and useful
|
||||
tool that it is. Something you pick up when you need it and put down when you
|
||||
do not. Something that is not incentivized to invade and alter every corner of
|
||||
your mind, until you are a highly engaged profitable user that advertisers can
|
||||
easily surveil and influence.
|
||||
|
||||
But even this option seems unrealistic in our current environment.
|
||||
|
||||
Again, I do not think that social media platforms will willingly shift to this
|
||||
model so long as the addiction economy is wildly profitable. The masses
|
||||
themselves need a lot of persuading to entertain this option, as they attack
|
||||
the idea of paid internet like the white blood cells of a reactionary society
|
||||
defending itself from a cure.
|
||||
|
||||
It’s hard not to see those who bemoan the toxicity of social media while
|
||||
viciously biting anyone who suggests their use should be limited as addicts,
|
||||
quick to reach for any rationale to justify their continued use. “I need to
|
||||
stay aware, paid internet is oppressive to the poor, if the government controls
|
||||
social media that’s like 1984.” Ugh, Capitalism. Ugh, Government. Ugh, Social
|
||||
Media. A hydra headed apathetic mantra of defeatism.
|
||||
|
||||
Personally, politically, I think the above solutions are both great solutions,
|
||||
but they both require democratic desire and government intervention. And I am
|
||||
not a politician or economist, so I offer these as my personal ideas that you
|
||||
can take or leave. I am voraciously interested in thoughtful alternative
|
||||
viewpoints (that don’t amount to an ‘Ugh,’ argument) and I love having this
|
||||
conversation. It’s a conversation we need to have.
|
||||
|
||||
But how can we have that conversation while still being driven crazy by the
|
||||
platforms on which we seek to have that conversation? Do we really think we’re
|
||||
going to think clearly and effective about how to save ourselves from Twitter
|
||||
ON Twitter?
|
||||
|
||||
I don’t think so. So here is my actual pragmatic position.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Reaching For Web 1.5
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty
|
||||
were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as
|
||||
less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people
|
||||
matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?
|
||||
|
||||
[Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron
|
||||
Lanier, p. 68]
|
||||
|
||||
———————————
|
||||
|
||||
Futurists remain suspended between utopian socialism and entrepreneurial
|
||||
libertarianism. So called Web 3.0 evangelists turn towards the emergent
|
||||
experiments of the blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs and AI. Unfortunately it so
|
||||
far seems that these technologies are fuelled by the same mythologies and
|
||||
contradictions that made our current tech overlords. “Artificial Intelligence”
|
||||
is a particularly misleading phrase, as even the architects of those
|
||||
technologies readily admit.
|
||||
|
||||
But I’m a pragmatist, not a techie. I don’t understand all those things enough
|
||||
to cast final judgements. If these tools prove useful, I look forward to seeing
|
||||
them manifest. In the meantime, we may already have all the tools we need to
|
||||
get started.
|
||||
|
||||
How do we change the way we do business so we aren’t beholden to the profit
|
||||
motives and incentive structures of ad driven social media? And how do we use
|
||||
social media to make connections, while not relying on it to sustain and
|
||||
mediate those connections?
|
||||
|
||||
The answer seems to involve a return to Web 1.0 sensibilities.
|
||||
|
||||
Independent websites, newsletters, blogs, email. Human to human contact, zero
|
||||
intermediary advertisers.
|
||||
|
||||
We don’t need new solutions. We just need to use the ones we already have.
|
||||
|
||||
Patreon and Substack are celebrated for their use of paid subscriptions in lieu
|
||||
of ads. They also seem to provide smaller separate spaces, and better mediated
|
||||
relationships between creators and audiences. But Substack is now [15]
|
||||
experiencing feature creep in their desire to dig into Twitter’s market, and
|
||||
Patreon can be fantastic, but seems to work best for the select elite who
|
||||
already have an audience.
|
||||
|
||||
However the quiet thing that these two platforms have in common is something we
|
||||
don’t need them for: the mailing list.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Websites & WebRings
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The early waves of web activity were remarkably energetic and had a personal
|
||||
quality. People created personal “homepages,” and each of them was different,
|
||||
and often strange. The web had flavor.
|
||||
|
||||
[You Are Not A Gadget – Jaron Lanier p. 15]
|
||||
|
||||
——–
|
||||
|
||||
Patreon and Substack have started introducing features that allow unique domain
|
||||
names. So instead of [16]patreon.com/cjthex, it could just be [17]cjthex.com,
|
||||
while still using Patreon’s functionality. Eliza McLamb’s Substack is now just
|
||||
[18]wordsfromeliza.com, while still using Substack’s functionality. The
|
||||
question that arises is… why not cut out the middle man and just make our own
|
||||
fucking websites?
|
||||
|
||||
How much of this process can we own? How human can things get?
|
||||
|
||||
The proliferation of personal websites could cure us of some of these perverse
|
||||
incentives and restore some of the individual curation and creativity to online
|
||||
life.
|
||||
|
||||
But how can you get notifications for website updates? Easy. [19]Newsletter.
|
||||
|
||||
The websites (that desire to) can simply have an option to voluntarily sign up
|
||||
for email updates. This is how most people already experience updates from
|
||||
Patreon and Substack. Just take money out of the equation and do it directly. A
|
||||
newsletter can be appraised, critiqued, ignored, or used without necessitating
|
||||
any online reaction whatsoever. If you desire to you can take the human time to
|
||||
do the human labour of emailing the author of the newsletter, but all
|
||||
engagement incentives are effectively wiped out. You’re forced into human
|
||||
territory, with all of its ambiguities and blemishes.
|
||||
|
||||
But what about community? Well, I have a couple of new ideas, but first it
|
||||
might be wise to highlight an old idea: [20]WebRings.
|
||||
|
||||
WebRings were organic networks of recommendations and directories, where
|
||||
individual websites decided to create various lists and chains of other
|
||||
featured websites.So one interesting website voluntarily (and individually)
|
||||
decides to recommend a different website, or several other websites. Maybe they
|
||||
put together lists of sister websites based on a theme, or based on their city,
|
||||
or based on their personal relationships.
|
||||
|
||||
WebRings are theoretically a way to spread circles of trust without the
|
||||
influence of platforms seeking to profit on our relationships.
|
||||
|
||||
Step one is make a site. So here are three sources of inspiration:
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
1. [21] Jaron Lanier’s whimsical 90s https sendup @ jaronlanier.com
|
||||
|
||||
The Jaron Lanier website is an up to date hand maintained catalogue of his many
|
||||
interests and labours. If I want Jaron Lanier, I go to jaronlanier.com and I
|
||||
get it directly. It is impossible to reduce Lanier to his tweets, or posts, or
|
||||
likes, or follows. His eclectic, and quirky personality bleeds through the
|
||||
page.
|
||||
|
||||
As it should, according to him:
|
||||
|
||||
MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized
|
||||
formating had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into
|
||||
multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view
|
||||
entirely. (You Are Not A Gadget, p. 48)
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. [22] The effortless index of tech author Nadia Asparouhova @ nadia.xyz
|
||||
|
||||
Nadia Asparouhova is a fascinating writer and thinker who’s work I have admired
|
||||
for a while, particularly the manner in which she disseminates her thoughts.
|
||||
She seems less overtly cynical and proscriptive about social media than I, but
|
||||
has carved out a uniquely mediated presence online out of sincere self
|
||||
interest. Asparouhova found the unspoken hidden-in-plain-site incentives of
|
||||
social media were interfering with how she wanted to think and be perceived.
|
||||
|
||||
She explains her motivations (the “website’s meta-ethos”) in her own warm words
|
||||
in [23]this interview on someone else’s(!) unique independent website:
|
||||
|
||||
[24]—————
|
||||
|
||||
I like being able to publish my messier, half-formed thoughts, but I get turned
|
||||
off by putting those next to a like count. It feels like the more likes you
|
||||
get, the more you start writing things to get likes, whereas the REALLY weird,
|
||||
unpopular stuff probably won’t get many likes at all.
|
||||
|
||||
I worry about likes changing how I think and interfering with my ability to
|
||||
wander and explore the edges. (I am truly envious, however, of people who are
|
||||
able to use Twitter as a place to braindump their thoughts! I think I’m just
|
||||
too self-conscious.)
|
||||
|
||||
———
|
||||
|
||||
[25]Pervasive, invisible design features almost always carry implicit values
|
||||
and subtle alterations to the human experience. Intentional, philosophically
|
||||
loaded norms like anonymity, comment sections, retweets, restacks, likes, and
|
||||
public follower count radically alter the way social and intellectual life
|
||||
operate. Infinitely refreshing feeds and bright red numbered notification
|
||||
buttons (that are impossible to scroll away from) constantly pull at your
|
||||
attention with shiny signs and scientifically satisfying noises.
|
||||
|
||||
—
|
||||
|
||||
The problem with likes is it naturally draws your eye towards the most-liked
|
||||
stuff, instead of deciding for yourself what’s most interesting. It almost
|
||||
feels like I’d be taking agency away from the reader by doing that. (Maybe I’m
|
||||
being a little sanctimonious—e.g. shorter thoughts probably draw ppl’s
|
||||
attention more than bigger paragraphs, there’s no way to totally avoid this
|
||||
problem—but I’d rather not add to it, either.)
|
||||
|
||||
.
|
||||
|
||||
One of the elegant choices Asparaouhova made was to continue sharing her
|
||||
incomplete thoughts without the implicitly mandatory coercive bells and
|
||||
whistles. She features a [26]Notes section chronicling half finished musings,
|
||||
without replies, comments, or numerical engagement rankings. It’s just actual
|
||||
human thoughts, that you can experience with your actual human heads.
|
||||
|
||||
[nadia-diclaimer]
|
||||
|
||||
Thumbs at ease, soldiers. There is no enemy to defeat, no ally to defend, no
|
||||
stats to compute. Just your interest or lack thereof in another person’s
|
||||
thoughts.
|
||||
|
||||
[27][Artist Bill Wurtz has also made excellent use of this Notes model.]
|
||||
|
||||
Before the Tweet is a Tweet, [28]it’s a thought, a joke, a feeling, a piece of
|
||||
humanity. Who says free labour for social media is the best use for such
|
||||
things?
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. [29] Finally, The Site of An Artist Within My Own Community @
|
||||
sabafeleke.art
|
||||
|
||||
saba is a young artist and engineer and their site is tiny and simple. But it’s
|
||||
beautiful, and unique, and it’s what you are capable of doing yesterday.
|
||||
|
||||
They feature their art, a Notes-like journal with a few entries, a “what im
|
||||
doing now” status that only displays one snapshot update at a time, contact
|
||||
info, and an “about” page that’s expressive beyond the requirements for a
|
||||
Twitter bio. It’s a presence online that belongs to them. They can make it as
|
||||
expansive or as sparse as they desire.
|
||||
|
||||
When I talked to them about this essay they linked me this:
|
||||
|
||||
[30]https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
|
||||
|
||||
It’s a fun short scroll that totally eviscerates people like me that have a
|
||||
[31]sleek sexy website that loads slower than saba’s or Nadia’s. You do not
|
||||
need tons of resources and skills and powers to get started on something like
|
||||
this, you can just do it. It is not illegal. It doesn’t need a .com address, as
|
||||
you’ve seen above it can be practically anything. I want to see more creativity
|
||||
from the general public on this sort of thing.
|
||||
|
||||
Author Savannah Brown hosts a [32]beautiful site that is essentially built on
|
||||
this principle.
|
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[2024-02-29-21_59_55-What_Is_To_Be_Done_Feb_28-]
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[Impromtu interview with Savannah Brown conducted at 9:35am Feb 25]
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Savannah’s site also includes the beginnings of a digital scrapbook she calls a
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[33]garden. It’s a little more designed, but ultimately its concept is
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extremely simple: a digital scrapbook where she can put gifs and videos and
|
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links and words and images that reflect her interests. She says she intended to
|
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make them yearly, to remember.
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|
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She also sent me the fountain of youth inspiration cornucopia that is [34]
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neocities, a one click portal into HTML infinity. Click around in there!!! Holy
|
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shit!!!
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|
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So there. Several completely achievable examples. And guess what? You’re here
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on my website, being linked to other unique websites. The WebRing has begun.
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A Gang of Humanist Highway Robbers:
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Each of those artists and authors also utilize mass media platforms. Bill Wurtz
|
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and I use YouTube. Savannah does too, but she also has book deals, like Nadia
|
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and Jaron. Jaron Lanier has done a lot of public speaking at [35]conferences,
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[36]liveshows and on [37]podcasts. I know of saba because I used my YouTube
|
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channel to redirect them to my Patreon and then used my Patreon to redirect
|
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them to my Website.
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And this is exactly what I am suggesting you do. Use social media and mass
|
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communications as you must to reach out to people you value and people who
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value you.
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Then take them away. Log off the app. Drop the tool, it has served its purpose.
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Leave the casino while you’re ahead, cash out those precious human chips, and
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see how far we can get outside of the system.
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It’s worth trying, isn’t it?
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Three Conversations With Loved Ones:
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First, a colleague:
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We were strolling the streets of Toronto talking about how much we hate
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marketing. I rave about social media as I always do, but they draw my attention
|
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to the world around us. It’s everywhere. Stadiums sponsored by banks,
|
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streetcars and subway stations plastered with ads for Ozempic and McDonalds,
|
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and the flower beds along the highway planted strategically to feature various
|
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company logos when in bloom.
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|
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We take the aesthetic angle: it’s ugly. But if we were to banish all this
|
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ugliness from existence, where would people find valuable things they don’t
|
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already know exist?
|
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|
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We quickly arrived at the solution of catalogues. A tool that you use to find
|
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what you seek, and maybe some serendipitous beauty you didn’t know to seek.
|
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|
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My mind wanders to phone books and church membership directories. Catalogues of
|
||||
people with their resources and roles and interests, email addresses and
|
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websites and webrings where individuals contact individuals, and overlapping
|
||||
circles of trust proliferate, maintaining the undesignable human mystery of
|
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socialization, resisting the carrot and stick designed to appear un-created.
|
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Individuals and communities instead of algorithms.
|
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Second, a friend:
|
||||
|
||||
We speak often about our phone addictions and what we value in our friendships.
|
||||
We go through seasons, sometimes texting constantly for week, sometimes not
|
||||
really speaking for a month. What we never do is take offence when the other
|
||||
doesn’t reply.
|
||||
|
||||
We realize the horrific entitlement a phone number “gives” you to someone
|
||||
else’s time. Why should I know the exact minute someone reads my texts? Why
|
||||
should I feel ignored if I call them and they don’t answer? Do I really have
|
||||
the right to alter your conscious experience 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365
|
||||
1/4 days of the year?
|
||||
|
||||
Why won’t Instagram allow you to toggle your read receipts? What does this do
|
||||
to us? Increase anxious anticipation of reply? Create the need to reply?
|
||||
|
||||
Email feels more respectful, particularly professionally. Offer someone an
|
||||
object with which they can do what they will. Reply now or later, ignore it
|
||||
altogether, pour your evening a comprehensive response, or fire back a single
|
||||
sentence reply. There is no way for your thumb to slip and plunge you into your
|
||||
newsfeed and no audience to perform the interaction to.
|
||||
|
||||
I begin writing physical letters to my loved ones. My heart in ink and paper,
|
||||
an act performed in embodied time. We don’t need constant contact, nor do we
|
||||
have it, it’s an illusion. Never apologize to me for being busy. You deserve
|
||||
more from me than these texts. Have this artifact to lovingly preserve.
|
||||
|
||||
My mother still has letters from lost lovers that bring her to tears. She has
|
||||
photo albums of moments I don’t remember, but the film feels alive.
|
||||
|
||||
I’ve lost lifetimes in the abandoned camera rolls of my devices. The infinity
|
||||
of photos has paradoxically left us with nothing. I lived an adolescence devoid
|
||||
of history.
|
||||
|
||||
———
|
||||
…
|
||||
.
|
||||
|
||||
I pick up the tools of my parents and attempt to create history anew.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Third, a mentor:
|
||||
|
||||
Rosemary is a genius and speaking to her makes me feel like my head is going to
|
||||
explode.
|
||||
|
||||
She likes the directory idea, she has another one: a bulletin.
|
||||
|
||||
“So this would involve creating an art object, but to use your church
|
||||
membership directory idea, think of what shows up in a church newsletter: Janis
|
||||
is holding a potluck on Friday, Randy needs more donations for the thing, Tim
|
||||
is looking to talk to people who have experience in blank.”
|
||||
|
||||
Exactly!
|
||||
|
||||
A centralized newsletter operating as a digital bulletin board for a community.
|
||||
Individuals send the Editors community notes, then the Editors curate a monthly
|
||||
letter advertising opportunities and needs.
|
||||
|
||||
Email this guy if you want to be part of this. This piece of media is relevant
|
||||
to our community’s values. Has anyone tried this? I’m looking for solutions to
|
||||
this problem. Email me if you can help.
|
||||
|
||||
Zero algorithmic intervention. Circles of trust. Different rooms for different
|
||||
things. Rooms you can leave.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
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|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
You Can’t Make An Entrance If You Never Make An Exit:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
You can never guarantee there won’t be bad actors, that you won’t be hurt, that
|
||||
it all might suck because people suck. But that’s the human condition. At least
|
||||
we’re dealing with that problem instead of the problems we create by trying to
|
||||
design humanity away.
|
||||
|
||||
Our societal confusion about accountability contributes to our inability to
|
||||
build communities. How can we have community without sin? Where will we find
|
||||
heroes that never fail us? If we can’t have them, the platform will have to do.
|
||||
You can’t cancel the platform. So we hold to the platform instead of the
|
||||
community. Instead of people.
|
||||
|
||||
Cancellations are so incredibly good for engagement. I can’t shake the sense
|
||||
we’ll never learn how to hurt and be hurt properly while performing the process
|
||||
for an audience.
|
||||
|
||||
We can’t fix these problems here. We need to go to smaller rooms.
|
||||
|
||||
Social media is a reverberant aircraft hangar with 5 billion people screaming
|
||||
in one big room. Dehumanizing statistical calculations are used to change minds
|
||||
and hearts en masse, from the top down, to make this process optimally
|
||||
profitable and addictive.
|
||||
|
||||
No single person decided to do this. Its automated, the responsibility diluted
|
||||
into the solvent of AI mythology. But this isn’t the inevitable face of some
|
||||
sentient supercomputer, and it’s not a value-less reflection of humanity. It is
|
||||
a curation of our worst tendencies, cheapening your every thought and feeling,
|
||||
corroding your faith in democracy and human beings.
|
||||
|
||||
Do not allow the online space to be dominated by bad incentives and digital
|
||||
landlords, dragging our culture down into decadence while telling us it’s our
|
||||
fault, it wouldn’t be this ugly if WE weren’t so ugly, if YOU weren’t so ugly.
|
||||
|
||||
It’s not you.
|
||||
|
||||
It’s the room.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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[39]BACK TO TOP
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[21] https://jaronlanier.com/
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[22] https://nadia.xyz/
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[23] https://www.kickscondor.com/nadia-eghbal/
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[24] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-internet.html
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[25] https://www.cjthex.com/against-analytics/
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[26] https://nadia.xyz/notes/
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[39] https://cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/#posttop
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[41] https://www.instagram.com/cjthex/
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[42] https://www.patreon.com/cjthex
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As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an
|
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opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years. Despite the
|
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encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out
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my [15]Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of energy or
|
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topics to write about. But from my perspective, the nature of my relationship
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with the Times had degenerated to a point where I couldn’t stay.
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[16]
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[https]
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Charles Kaiser has written a [17]fair-minded article in the Columbia Journalism
|
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Review about my departure. What I want to do in this post is add more context.
|
||||
Let’s be clear: I am not planning to have a running feud with the Times: I
|
||||
came, I saw, I felt I had to leave, and I moved on.
|
||||
|
||||
But I believe that the story of why I left says something important about the
|
||||
current state of legacy journalism.
|
||||
|
||||
The background: until 2017 or so, I felt extremely happy with my role at the
|
||||
Times, for a couple of reasons.
|
||||
|
||||
One, I felt that I had finally cracked the code of opinion column-writing. When
|
||||
the Times hired me at the end of 1999, I was an economics professor who wrote
|
||||
occasionally for a broader audience. And crafting 800-word plain-English essays
|
||||
for readers with no background in economics is, shall we say, a bit different
|
||||
from writing 5000-word academic journal articles full of equations and diagrams
|
||||
for a small professional community. For a while, I struggled with the
|
||||
transition.
|
||||
|
||||
But eventually I figured it out. I actually took pleasure in the craftsmanship,
|
||||
in boiling an argument down to its essentials, expressing it in ordinary
|
||||
language, and making it interesting. Furthermore, I believe that my writing
|
||||
affected the national discourse, especially over issues such as George W.
|
||||
Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security, the march to the Affordable Care
|
||||
Act (despite Obama’s initial reluctance), and the unjustified fiscal panic of
|
||||
the early 2010s.
|
||||
|
||||
During my first 24 years at the Times, from 2000 to 2024, I faced very few
|
||||
editorial constraints on how and what I wrote. For most of that period my draft
|
||||
would go straight to a copy editor, who would sometimes suggest that I make
|
||||
some changes — for example, softening an assertion that arguably went beyond
|
||||
provable facts, or redrafting a passage the editor didn’t quite understand, and
|
||||
which readers probably wouldn’t either. But the editing was very light; over
|
||||
the years several copy editors jokingly complained that I wasn’t giving them
|
||||
anything to do, because I came in at length, with clean writing and with
|
||||
back-up for all factual assertions.
|
||||
|
||||
This light-touch editing prevailed even when I took positions that made Times
|
||||
leadership very nervous. My early and repeated criticisms of Bush’s push to
|
||||
invade Iraq led to several tense meetings with management. In those meetings, I
|
||||
was urged to tone it down. Yet the columns themselves were published as I wrote
|
||||
them. And in the end, I believe the Times — which eventually [18]apologized for
|
||||
its role in promoting the war — was glad that I had taken an anti-invasion
|
||||
stand. I believe that it was my finest hour.
|
||||
|
||||
So I was dismayed to find out this past year, when the current Times editors
|
||||
and I began to discuss our differences, that current management and top editors
|
||||
appear to have been completely unaware of this important bit of the paper’s
|
||||
history and my role in it.
|
||||
|
||||
Two, previous Times management and editors had allowed me to engage in the
|
||||
higher-level economic debates of the time. The aftermath of the 2008 financial
|
||||
crisis led to a great flowering of economics blogs. Important, sophisticated
|
||||
debates about the causes of the crisis and the policy response were taking
|
||||
place more or less in real time. I was able to be an active part of those
|
||||
debates, because I had an [19]economics blog of my own, under the Times
|
||||
umbrella but separate from the column. The blog, unedited, was both more
|
||||
technical — sometimes much more technical — and looser than the column.
|
||||
|
||||
Then, step by step, all the things that made writing at the Times worthwhile
|
||||
for me were taken away. The Times eliminated the blog at the end of 2017.
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“Words,” [21]John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “ought to be a little wild, for
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This Glorious Machine
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Riding an e-bike is like discovering a long forgotten secret of the universe
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or, perhaps, inventing something worthy of a heartfelt “eureka.” Look: zipping
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||||
through traffic on my first e-bike, blitzing past the stuffy tin cans all
|
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around me, I’ve become master of the four winds. Now first place in a
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triathlon, now a mythical creature that can move at the speed of thought. Upon
|
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my trusty electric 6-gear steed I am Hermes, lord of heavenly motion.
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And the sound! An e-bike makes every thunk, whip, and whirl that you might find
|
||||
in a comic book: gears rattling, spokes spinning. Just listen to this thing go!
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I’m dashing between cars and blurry, bipedal pedestrians, and right now, on my
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||||
first ride to work, I can’t stop smiling.
|
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|
||||
I’m smiling because, unlike so many promises that tech has failed to deliver,
|
||||
e-bikes are genuinely worthy of an hour-long presentation delivered in a
|
||||
turtleneck. If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then an e-bike is a
|
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bicycle for our bicycles, a wonder of micro-mobility as they reimagine our
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relationship with our bodies and our cities and even with the future of
|
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technology itself.
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Simply put...
|
||||
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||||
E-bikes aren’t a dumb tech grift. [1]#
|
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|
||||
As I weave through double parked cars and brave pedestrians, I see that this
|
||||
bicycle with an electric motor has returned the hope I’d lost over the years.
|
||||
Here, listen, it whispers: tech doesn’t have to be a con or make us the worst
|
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versions of ourselves. Look: technology has kept its promise and genuinely made
|
||||
the world better!
|
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|
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My e-bike is pulling me into an alternate dimension where tech isn’t designed
|
||||
to be a grift from the start, as these two-wheeled bad boys aren’t only here to
|
||||
generate shareholder value; they’re designed to help.
|
||||
|
||||
I’m halfway through my ride now and it’s dawning on me that this little e-bike
|
||||
of mine offers a critique against tech culture as a mere profit-generating
|
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tool, sure. But this machine comes with a vision, too. A vision of what a city
|
||||
should be and how we ought to navigate it.
|
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|
||||
It’s clear from this ride that our cities have been built all wrong as for more
|
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than a century we’ve incentivized cars to segment and separate our country into
|
||||
human-free zones and endless freeways with generic, Lego-like blocks copy and
|
||||
pasted in between. Although, my e-bike, as brilliant as it may be, is a
|
||||
well-designed hack on top of all that. It’s a patch on top of poor city
|
||||
planning and underfunded public infrastructure.
|
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every e-bike is a manifesto for lost common spaces, huge sidewalks with giant
|
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trees above and local shops within walking distance. Parks! Places you can sit
|
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down! Shade! Shelter! Not just an in-between place or a hurdle to
|
||||
circumnavigate between your job and your home, e-bikes argue for a city to be
|
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proud of instead. And isn’t that what tech was supposed to do, show us a way
|
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out?
|
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|
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Wasn’t tech supposed to show us the future?
|
||||
|
||||
E-bikes are more punk rock than punk rock. [2]#
|
||||
|
||||
For a decade my primary method of transportation was a motorcycle. Back in my
|
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early 20s I believed there was nothing more punk than an exploding hunk of
|
||||
metal beneath me. Roaring, screaming through dinky villages in Devon or across
|
||||
the sparse and shining cities of southern California.
|
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|
||||
Bicycles were the opposite of all that freedom. For decades I associated them
|
||||
with my childhood and being trapped in my tiny hometown without access to the
|
||||
wider world. Bicycles weren’t objects of desire or of longing because they
|
||||
simply weren’t fast or loud. And to be cool there always has to be volume and
|
||||
speed. Drums? Fast. Loud. Cool. Hip hop? Same. Motorcycles? What did you say? I
|
||||
can’t hear you because my eardrums have shattered and all that remains is a
|
||||
wonderful, heart-stompingly loud vibration in my chest; loudness personified
|
||||
and loudness eternal.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
being a total jerk and looking down on cyclists, I’m embarrassed to say I’ve
|
||||
thoroughly learned my lesson. Bicycles, and e-bikes specifically, are genuine
|
||||
wonders. Somehow strapping an electric motor onto a bicycle changes everything
|
||||
for me.
|
||||
|
||||
Here’s the kicker though. E-bikes aren’t cool because of the way they look or
|
||||
how loud they are and they’re certainly not cool because they turn heads or
|
||||
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|
||||
a new kind of world where technology is genuinely helpful, where technology
|
||||
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||||
|
||||
Technology can just do the job it’s meant to.
|
||||
|
||||
E-bikes are the future we deserve. [3]#
|
||||
|
||||
Almost home now, stopping for a kid to cross the street. She’s smiling and
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
sure, I might very well be a nerd, a loser, perhaps even a dreaded cyclist now
|
||||
but no matter how much I love this machine it will never be truly cool. But
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
dumb catchphrases or logo redesigns or promises that can’t possibly be kept.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
What if we made something useful instead? [4]#
|
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|
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|
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|
||||
[12] Dashbit
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[13] Please consider asking your employer to sponsor Sonic Pi.
|
||||
|
||||
Community Support
|
||||
|
||||
Please consider joining our wonderful community of supporters helping to keep
|
||||
Sonic Pi free for everyone.
|
||||
|
||||
[14] Alembic
|
||||
|
||||
Support via Patreon
|
||||
|
||||
[15] Alembic
|
||||
|
||||
Support via GitHub Sponsors
|
||||
|
||||
Code. Music. Live.
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument.
|
||||
Watch how you can use it for live performances from ambient sets to dance music
|
||||
in nightclubs...
|
||||
|
||||
Array by DJ_Dave
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi Band - Sam Aaron & Ben Smith
|
||||
|
||||
Reeled - Jylda & Sam Aaron
|
||||
|
||||
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
|
||||
coded by Sébastien Rannou
|
||||
|
||||
Welcome to our Community
|
||||
|
||||
Join the friendly Sonic Pi community and share your ideas and thoughts with
|
||||
other educators, musicians and live coders...
|
||||
|
||||
[16] [in_thread_screen]
|
||||
|
||||
[17]Come and join the conversation...
|
||||
|
||||
Live Coding Education
|
||||
|
||||
[18] [live-coding-education]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi helps you engage students in Computing through music. Read how in the
|
||||
article [19]'Live Coding Education'
|
||||
|
||||
Watch this introductory [20]CAS TV interview with Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron.
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi in the
|
||||
|
||||
Computing Classroom
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi was specifically designed for and built in collaboration with teachers
|
||||
for use in the classroom.
|
||||
|
||||
[21][music_note]
|
||||
|
||||
Music Live Coding
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument which enables exciting new
|
||||
learning pathways in the classroom.
|
||||
|
||||
[22]Music programming workshop by Mehackit
|
||||
[blackboard]
|
||||
|
||||
Classroom Ready
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi was designed, implemented and developed with extensive classroom
|
||||
trials in close collaboration with teachers.
|
||||
|
||||
[23]Introduction for Teachers
|
||||
[24] [code-border]
|
||||
|
||||
Creative Computing
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi comes with a scheme of work targetted for KS3 Computing developed in
|
||||
harmony with the new UK curriculum.
|
||||
|
||||
[25]Scheme of Work for Computing Lessons
|
||||
|
||||
Engage your students by coding music in your classroom today.
|
||||
|
||||
Free Sonic Pi Book
|
||||
|
||||
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, has written this book to
|
||||
[26]complement the built-in tutorial.
|
||||
|
||||
Master live loops, code drum breaks, compose your own melodies make random
|
||||
riffs and loops, learn to shape and sculpt sounds and much, much more...
|
||||
|
||||
[27] [book]
|
||||
|
||||
[28]Download "Code Music with Sonic Pi" Now!
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi Talks
|
||||
|
||||
"Sonic Pi lowers the barrier to entry for a creative experience with code..."
|
||||
|
||||
[29]TEDx Newcastle 2015 - Programming as Performance
|
||||
|
||||
[30]GOTO 2018 - Let's Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi
|
||||
|
||||
Music. Code. Simple.
|
||||
|
||||
See how easy it is to get started coding your first sounds...
|
||||
|
||||
Haunted Bells
|
||||
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
sample :perc_bell, rate: (rrand 0.125, 1.5)
|
||||
sleep rrand(0, 2)
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Listen to the coded bells...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Pentatonic Bleeps
|
||||
|
||||
with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.2 do
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
play scale(:Eb2, :major_pentatonic, num_octaves: 3).choose, release: 0.1, amp: rand
|
||||
sleep 0.1
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Code with scales and chords...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Tron Bikes
|
||||
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
with_synth :dsaw do
|
||||
with_fx(:slicer, phase: [0.25,0.125].choose) do
|
||||
with_fx(:reverb, room: 0.5, mix: 0.3) do
|
||||
start_note = chord([:b1, :b2, :e1, :e2, :b3, :e3].choose, :minor).choose
|
||||
final_note = chord([:b1, :b2, :e1, :e2, :b3, :e3].choose, :minor).choose
|
||||
|
||||
p = play start_note, release: 8, note_slide: 4, cutoff: 30, cutoff_slide: 4, detune: rrand(0, 0.2), pan: rrand(-1, 0), pan_slide: rrand(4, 8)
|
||||
control p, note: final_note, cutoff: rrand(80, 120), pan: rrand(0, 1)
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
sleep 8
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Listen to bikes from the future...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Wob Rhythm
|
||||
|
||||
with_fx :reverb do
|
||||
in_thread do
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
r = [0.5, 1.0/3, 3.0/5].choose
|
||||
8.times do
|
||||
sample :ambi_choir, rate: r, pan: rrand(-1, 1)
|
||||
sleep 0.5
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
with_fx :wobble, phase: 2 do |w|
|
||||
with_fx :echo, mix: 0.6 do
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
sample :drum_heavy_kick
|
||||
sample :bass_hit_c, rate: 0.8, amp: 0.4
|
||||
sleep 1
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Hear the rhythmic wobble...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ocean Waves
|
||||
|
||||
with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.5 do
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
s = synth [:bnoise, :cnoise, :gnoise].choose, amp: rrand(0.5, 1.5), attack: rrand(0, 4), sustain: rrand(0, 2), release: rrand(1, 3), cutoff_slide: rrand(0, 3), cutoff: rrand(60, 80), pan: rrand(-1, 1), pan_slide: 1, amp: rrand(0.5, 1)
|
||||
control s, pan: rrand(-1, 1), cutoff: rrand(60, 115)
|
||||
sleep rrand(2, 3)
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Hear the digital waves crash...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
IDM Breakbeat
|
||||
|
||||
define :play_bb do |n|
|
||||
sample :drum_heavy_kick
|
||||
sample :ambi_drone, rate: [0.25, 0.5, 0.125, 1].choose, amp: 0.25 if rand < 0.125
|
||||
sample :ambi_lunar_land, rate: [0.5, 0.125, 1, -1, -0.5].choose, amp: 0.25 if rand < 0.125
|
||||
sample :loop_amen, attack: 0, release: 0.05, start: 1 - (1.0 / n), rate: [1,1,1,1,1,1,-1].choose
|
||||
sleep sample_duration(:loop_amen) / n
|
||||
end
|
||||
loop {play_bb([1,2,4,8,16].choose)}
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Listen to crazy coded beats...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Acid Walk
|
||||
|
||||
in_thread do
|
||||
use_synth :fm
|
||||
sleep 2
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
28.times do
|
||||
sample :drum_bass_hard, amp: 0.8
|
||||
sleep 0.25
|
||||
play :e2, release: 0.2
|
||||
sample :elec_cymbal, rate: 12, amp: 0.6
|
||||
sleep 0.25
|
||||
end
|
||||
sleep 4
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
use_synth :tb303
|
||||
with_fx :reverb do |rev|
|
||||
loop do
|
||||
control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.3)
|
||||
with_fx :slicer, phase: 0.125 do
|
||||
sample :ambi_lunar_land, sustain: 0, release: 8, amp: 2
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6)
|
||||
r = rrand(0.05, 0.3)
|
||||
64.times do
|
||||
play chord(:e3, :minor).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(50, 90), amp: 0.5
|
||||
sleep 0.125
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6)
|
||||
r = rrand(0.1, 0.2)
|
||||
with_synth :prophet do
|
||||
32.times do
|
||||
sleep 0.125
|
||||
play chord(:a3, :m7).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(40, 130), amp: 0.7
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6)
|
||||
r = rrand(0.05, 0.3)
|
||||
32.times do
|
||||
play chord(:e3, :minor).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(110, 130), amp: 0.4
|
||||
sleep 0.125
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6)
|
||||
with_fx :echo, phase: 0.25, decay: 8 do
|
||||
16.times do
|
||||
play chord([:e2, :e3, :e4].choose, :m7).choose, release: 0.05, cutoff: rrand(50, 129), amp: 0.5
|
||||
sleep 0.125
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
Start producing longer tracks...
|
||||
|
||||
• play
|
||||
• pause
|
||||
|
||||
What are you waiting for? Get yourself a copy of Sonic Pi for:
|
||||
|
||||
[31]Windows [32]macOS [33]Raspberry Pi OS
|
||||
|
||||
What's Happening with
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi
|
||||
|
||||
Here's a taster of some of the exciting things happening in the Sonic Pi
|
||||
world...
|
||||
|
||||
[34]The Music Commission
|
||||
|
||||
[35]The Music Commission
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi is represented by Sam Aaron on The Music Commission panel, a new
|
||||
enquiry launched by ABRSM exploring how to better sustain & support progress &
|
||||
progression in learning music.
|
||||
|
||||
[36]Naked Scientists
|
||||
|
||||
[37]The Naked Scientists
|
||||
|
||||
The wonderful Naked Scientists covered Sonic Pi in an interview which was
|
||||
broadcast live on BBC radio and is available to listen and read [38]here.
|
||||
|
||||
[39]The Big Bang Fair
|
||||
|
||||
[40]The Big Bang Fair 2018
|
||||
|
||||
The Big Bang Fair is the UK's largest celebration of STEM for young people. In
|
||||
2018 the Sonic Pi Band performed a series of shows demonstrating how to live
|
||||
code your own band.
|
||||
|
||||
[41]Mehackit
|
||||
|
||||
[42]Kokoa Certified Resources
|
||||
|
||||
The incredible [43]Mehackit Sonic Pi creative coding resource has been
|
||||
certified by the Finnish Education Standard Kakoa for its educational quality.
|
||||
|
||||
[44][convo]
|
||||
|
||||
[45]Royal Albert Hall : Convo
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi was an Education Partner for Convo, an ambitious new work at the Royal
|
||||
Albert Hall featuring 1,000 young instrumentalists & singers combining
|
||||
traditional instruments & code.
|
||||
[46]Watch the performance here
|
||||
|
||||
[47][codebus]
|
||||
|
||||
[48]Codebus Africa
|
||||
|
||||
In 2017, African and Finnish tech and education innovators collaborated to use
|
||||
Sonic Pi to deliver creative coding workshops engaging almost 2000 children in
|
||||
10 African countries.
|
||||
|
||||
[49]Google Logo
|
||||
|
||||
[50]Google Open Source Winner
|
||||
|
||||
Google have announced Sonic Pi as one of a number of projects they either use
|
||||
or think are important.
|
||||
|
||||
[51][mt-awardlo]
|
||||
|
||||
[52]Sonic Pi nominated Music Teacher Award finalist
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi was listed as a finalist for the [53]Music Teacher Best Music
|
||||
Education Product Award alongside music instrument manufacturers Boss & Korg.
|
||||
|
||||
[54][rollingsto]
|
||||
|
||||
[55]Rolling Stone Review
|
||||
|
||||
Sam Aaron performed with Sonic Pi at Moogfest 2016. Rolling Stone featured his
|
||||
performance in their [56]review of the festival and said it "transcended the
|
||||
present".
|
||||
|
||||
[57]The International Space Station
|
||||
|
||||
[58]Sonic Pi Space Competition
|
||||
|
||||
[59]These are the winning students that won an exciting once-in-a-lifetime
|
||||
competition to get their Sonic Pi music played onboard the International Space
|
||||
Station by UK astronaut Tim Peake.
|
||||
|
||||
[60][mistajam]
|
||||
|
||||
[61]CBBC Ten Pieces Masterclass
|
||||
|
||||
Radio 1 DJ MistaJam and Live Coder Sam Aaron compose a piece of music using
|
||||
Sonic Pi, inspired by Bizet's 'Carmen'
|
||||
|
||||
[62]Daft Punk
|
||||
|
||||
[63]Daft Punk in code
|
||||
|
||||
Sébastien Rannou has published a tutorial on how he live coded his fabulous
|
||||
[64]cover of Aerodynamic by Daft Punk.
|
||||
|
||||
[65][newsround]
|
||||
|
||||
[66]Sonic Pi featured on CBBC Newsround
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi was featured on the UK national children's news programme [67]CBBC
|
||||
Newsround - with presenter Jenny Lawrence discovering Live Coding for the first
|
||||
time.
|
||||
|
||||
[68][sonic-drea]
|
||||
|
||||
[69]Sonic Pi: Live & Coding Pop Pi Videos Launched
|
||||
|
||||
The Sonic Pi: Live & Coding project has launched [70] a series of 10 "Pop Pi"
|
||||
music videos created by artists using Sonic Pi.
|
||||
|
||||
[71][summerscho]
|
||||
|
||||
[72]Sonic Pi Live & Coding - Summer School
|
||||
|
||||
Artists Juneau Projects [73]write about the recent Sonic Pi Live & Coding
|
||||
Summer School which involved 60 children aged 10-14 learning to code and
|
||||
perform on stage at Cambridge Junction.
|
||||
|
||||
Get Sonic Pi for
|
||||
|
||||
Raspberry Pi OS - 64 bit
|
||||
|
||||
Get started on the world's most affordable computer.
|
||||
|
||||
Built for Raspberry Pi
|
||||
|
||||
[74] [rpi-logo]
|
||||
|
||||
Get the latest version of Sonic Pi for your Raspberry Pi to take advantage of
|
||||
all the new features such as MIDI, OSC networking, new translations, improved
|
||||
interface, headphone audio and much, much more...
|
||||
|
||||
64 bit package
|
||||
|
||||
[arm64-chip]
|
||||
|
||||
v4.5.1
|
||||
Download then right click and choose 'install package'
|
||||
|
||||
Requires the 64 bit release of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm)
|
||||
|
||||
[75]Download (64 bit)
|
||||
[76]Full Installation Instructions
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks for Downloading Sonic Pi
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi - Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
Take the Course
|
||||
|
||||
Kick start your Sonic Pi journey and join creator Sam Aaron with this new
|
||||
introductory course and learn to express yourself with code.
|
||||
|
||||
[77] Learn More
|
||||
Using 32 bit Raspberry Pi OS?
|
||||
[78]Download a 32 bit version here
|
||||
|
||||
Terminal Installation
|
||||
|
||||
[box3]
|
||||
|
||||
To install run the following commands via the terminal (within the directory
|
||||
you downloaded the deb file):
|
||||
|
||||
sudo apt update
|
||||
sudo apt install ./sonic-pi_4.5.1_1_bookworm.arm64.deb
|
||||
|
||||
[79]Back to top
|
||||
|
||||
Get Sonic Pi for
|
||||
|
||||
Windows
|
||||
|
||||
Turn any PC into a full Sonic Pi workstation.
|
||||
|
||||
Built for Windows 10 & 11
|
||||
|
||||
[unibody_wi]
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi has been developed and designed to work perfectly on laptops and
|
||||
desktops running either Windows 10 or 11.
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi for Windows
|
||||
|
||||
[intel-cpu]
|
||||
|
||||
Download and double-click to install
|
||||
v4.5.1
|
||||
|
||||
Requires Windows 10.
|
||||
|
||||
[80]Windows 10/11 (64 bit)
|
||||
MSI Installer
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks for Downloading Sonic Pi
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi - Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
Take the Course
|
||||
|
||||
Kick start your Sonic Pi journey and join creator Sam Aaron with this new
|
||||
introductory course and learn to express yourself with code.
|
||||
|
||||
[81] Learn More
|
||||
Still using Windows 7 or 8.1?
|
||||
[82]Download v3.1 here
|
||||
|
||||
MSI Installer
|
||||
|
||||
[windows]
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi is available as a signed MSI installer for you to securely install on
|
||||
your machine or network.
|
||||
|
||||
Getting Sonic Pi running on Windows is as easy as 3, 1, 4...
|
||||
|
||||
[83]Back to top
|
||||
|
||||
Get Sonic Pi for
|
||||
|
||||
macOS
|
||||
|
||||
Use the full power of your Mac to take Sonic Pi to the next level.
|
||||
|
||||
macOS - Apple Silicon
|
||||
|
||||
[apple-cpu]
|
||||
|
||||
v4.5.1
|
||||
for Macs with Apple M series chips
|
||||
|
||||
Requires Ventura
|
||||
(macOS 13)
|
||||
|
||||
[84]Mac with Apple chip
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Securely Built for Apple
|
||||
|
||||
[apple]
|
||||
|
||||
Intel or Apple Silicon?
|
||||
|
||||
There are two versions available to download. Apple Silicon for newer Macs
|
||||
powered by M1 or M2 chips and Intel for older Macs.
|
||||
|
||||
See "About This Mac" for your chip type.
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks for Downloading Sonic Pi
|
||||
|
||||
Sonic Pi - Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
Take the Course
|
||||
|
||||
Kick start your Sonic Pi journey and join creator Sam Aaron with this new
|
||||
introductory course and learn to express yourself with code.
|
||||
|
||||
[85] Learn More
|
||||
Using macOS 10.15 or below?
|
||||
[86]Download previous releases here
|
||||
|
||||
macOS - Intel x64
|
||||
|
||||
[intel-cpu]
|
||||
|
||||
v4.5.1
|
||||
for older Macs with Intel chips
|
||||
|
||||
Requires Monterey
|
||||
(macOS 12)
|
||||
|
||||
[87]Mac with Intel chip
|
||||
Most Common
|
||||
|
||||
Getting Sonic Pi running on your Mac is as easy as eating Apple Pi.
|
||||
|
||||
[88]Back to top
|
||||
|
||||
• [89]Twitter |
|
||||
• [90]Github
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
References:
|
||||
|
||||
[1] https://sonic-pi.net/#intro
|
||||
[2] https://sonic-pi.net/#community
|
||||
[3] https://sonic-pi.net/#examples
|
||||
[4] https://sonic-pi.net/#news
|
||||
[5] https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html
|
||||
[6] https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html
|
||||
[7] https://twitter.com/samaaron
|
||||
[8] https://sonic-pi.net/#windows
|
||||
[9] https://sonic-pi.net/#mac
|
||||
[10] https://sonic-pi.net/#rp
|
||||
[11] https://sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-introduction
|
||||
[12] https://dashbit.co/
|
||||
[13] https://github.com/sponsors/samaaron
|
||||
[14] https://patreon.com/samaaron
|
||||
[15] https://github.com/sponsors/samaaron
|
||||
[16] https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/
|
||||
[17] https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/
|
||||
[18] https://sonic-pi.net/files/articles/Live-Coding-Education.pdf
|
||||
[19] https://sonic-pi.net/files/articles/Live-Coding-Education.pdf
|
||||
[20] https://youtu.be/7sEMKXrRaAs?list=LLQB04t2hxSBVTjxpbIHdI-w
|
||||
[21] https://www.sonicpiliveandcoding.com/
|
||||
[22] https://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/
|
||||
[23] https://sonic-pi.net/files/articles/Live-Coding-Education.pdf
|
||||
[24] https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/sonic-pi-lessons/
|
||||
[25] https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/sonic-pi-lessons/
|
||||
[26] https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html
|
||||
[27] https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/essentials-sonic-pi-v1/pdf/download
|
||||
[28] https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/essentials-sonic-pi-v1/pdf/download
|
||||
[29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU
|
||||
[30] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLLwG_SN8oo
|
||||
[31] https://sonic-pi.net/#windows
|
||||
[32] https://sonic-pi.net/#mac
|
||||
[33] https://sonic-pi.net/#rp
|
||||
[34] http://www.musiccommission.org.uk/
|
||||
[35] http://www.musiccommission.org.uk/
|
||||
[36] https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/creating-code-make-music
|
||||
[37] https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/creating-code-make-music
|
||||
[38] https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/creating-code-make-music
|
||||
[39] https://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/
|
||||
[40] https://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/
|
||||
[41] http://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/
|
||||
[42] http://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/
|
||||
[43] http://mehackit.org/
|
||||
[44] https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2019/convo-2019/
|
||||
[45] https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2019/convo-2019/
|
||||
[46] https://vimeo.com/328673793#t=3534s
|
||||
[47] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzDW-OdFJI
|
||||
[48] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqzDW-OdFJI
|
||||
[49] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/the-latest-round-of-google-open-source.html
|
||||
[50] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/the-latest-round-of-google-open-source.html
|
||||
[51] https://www.musicmark.org.uk/news/full-list-of-winners-at-the-music-teacher-awards-for-excellence/
|
||||
[52] https://www.musicmark.org.uk/news/full-list-of-winners-at-the-music-teacher-awards-for-excellence/
|
||||
[53] https://www.musicmark.org.uk/news/full-list-of-winners-at-the-music-teacher-awards-for-excellence/
|
||||
[54] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/moogfest-2016-was-it-actually-the-future-of-music-58300
|
||||
[55] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/moogfest-2015-was-it-actually-the-future-of-music-58300
|
||||
[56] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/moogfest-2016-was-it-actually-the-future-of-music-58300
|
||||
[57] https://astro-pi.org/principia/sonic-pi-winners/
|
||||
[58] https://astro-pi.org/principia/sonic-pi-winners/
|
||||
[59] https://astro-pi.org/principia/sonic-pi-winners/
|
||||
[60] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031dq3j
|
||||
[61] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031dq3j
|
||||
[62] https://aimxhaisse.com/aerodynamic-en.html
|
||||
[63] https://aimxhaisse.com/aerodynamic-en.html
|
||||
[64] https://aimxhaisse.com/aerodynamic-en.html
|
||||
[65] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30151730
|
||||
[66] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30151730
|
||||
[67] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30151730
|
||||
[68] https://vimeo.com/110416910
|
||||
[69] https://vimeo.com/user33572687
|
||||
[70] https://vimeo.com/user33572687
|
||||
[71] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/sonic-pi-live-summer-school
|
||||
[72] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/sonic-pi-live-summer-school
|
||||
[73] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/sonic-pi-live-summer-school
|
||||
[74] https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi
|
||||
[75] https://sonic-pi.net/files/releases/v4.5.1/sonic-pi_4.5.1_1_bookworm.arm64.deb
|
||||
[76] https://sonic-pi.net/files/releases/v4.5.1/README-Sonic-Pi-Raspberry-Pi-OS.txt
|
||||
[77] https://sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-introduction
|
||||
[78] https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v4.3.0
|
||||
[79] https://sonic-pi.net/#intro
|
||||
[80] https://sonic-pi.net/files/releases/v4.5.1/Sonic-Pi-for-Win-x64-v4-5-1.msi
|
||||
[81] https://sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-introduction
|
||||
[82] https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v3.1.0
|
||||
[83] https://sonic-pi.net/#intro
|
||||
[84] https://sonic-pi.net/files/releases/v4.5.1/Sonic-Pi-for-Mac-arm64-v4-5-1.dmg
|
||||
[85] https://sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-introduction
|
||||
[86] https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases
|
||||
[87] https://sonic-pi.net/files/releases/v4.5.1/Sonic-Pi-for-Intel-Mac-x64-v4-5-1.dmg
|
||||
[88] https://sonic-pi.net/#intro
|
||||
[89] https://twitter.com/sonic_pi
|
||||
[90] https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi
|
||||
284
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284
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|
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[1]Skip to Main Content · [2]Take on Rules · [3]About · [4]RSS Feed · [5]Site
|
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Map · [6]Search
|
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Breadcrumbs [7]Home / [8]Posts for 2025 / [9]Some Entries from My Personal
|
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|
||||
|
||||
Some Entries from My Personal Journal
|
||||
|
||||
[10]Jeremy Friesen wrote [11]< [12]this post [13]> on 2025-01-16 :: Tags: [14]<
|
||||
[15]personal [16]> · [17]< [18]poetry [19]>
|
||||
|
||||
Summary: Here I draw two entries from my #journal; annotating some thoughts as
|
||||
well as how I’ve expanded my #writing process over the last two months. There’s
|
||||
a #poem in here as well.
|
||||
|
||||
On Tuesday the 12th of November, 2024, I started what I hoped to be a new
|
||||
habit. That is writing a personal daily journal. Over the weeks, I expanded my
|
||||
aspirations to include a daily check list of activities I wanted to do.
|
||||
|
||||
I’ve also used these journals to spin-off blog posts; such as this one. In
|
||||
other words, my daily journal is growing a virtuous cycle in my creative
|
||||
process.
|
||||
|
||||
How It Got Going
|
||||
|
||||
These are the notes for November 19th, one week after starting my electronic
|
||||
journal endeavor.
|
||||
|
||||
2024-11-19 Tuesday
|
||||
|
||||
This used to be a bulleted list, but I went back and converted lists to terse
|
||||
paragraphs. As future entries attest, going from list to paragraph was a good
|
||||
move; I’m spending just a bit more time synthesizing the “list” item.Today I:
|
||||
|
||||
Wrote [20]“Spear” by Nicola Griffith.
|
||||
|
||||
Finished reading bell hooks all about love by bell hooks.
|
||||
|
||||
I was able to get quite a bit of work done; and have some tasks lined up for
|
||||
tomorrow.
|
||||
|
||||
Downloaded [21]The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide.
|
||||
|
||||
I encourage everyone to watch A Small Light; the story of Miep and Jan Geis and
|
||||
their efforts to hide Anne Frank and several other Jews. We started watching
|
||||
it, knowing the heartbreak and hurt. But there are reminders that each little
|
||||
act of life affirmation is a positive and worthy act.
|
||||
|
||||
Watched episode 2 of A Small Light.
|
||||
|
||||
Some “works” I will add to my Bibliography; others I won’t. A Small Light is in
|
||||
my bibliography and thus uses CITE tag, whereas “Interior Chinatown” is not and
|
||||
does not.
|
||||
|
||||
We watched the first episode of “Interior Chinatown”.
|
||||
|
||||
Practiced testing a radio frequency detector; this one works on vibrate or
|
||||
making noise.
|
||||
|
||||
Tonight I plan to continue reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White.
|
||||
|
||||
How It’s Going
|
||||
|
||||
The section below is yesterday’s entry. The margin notes are my reflections for
|
||||
today.
|
||||
|
||||
2025-01-15 Wednesday
|
||||
|
||||
I include a date link as a matter of practice. This is a custom [22]Org-Mode
|
||||
[23]📖 link that I have used for a year and a half. It serves two purposes:
|
||||
generate an HTML time element and to provide backlink-ing. I think I could move
|
||||
towards the native Org-Mode time element; but for now this is what I have.
|
||||
|
||||
Today:
|
||||
|
||||
• [24][*] Read one book chapter
|
||||
• [25][*] Read one poem
|
||||
• [26][*] Read one essay
|
||||
• [27][*] Tend my daily feed
|
||||
• [28][*] Write one response to a feed item
|
||||
|
||||
The dogs woke me up around 4am, and I went outside. The moon, close to full,
|
||||
shown through clear skies. Setting a light the bitter cold snow, which twinkled
|
||||
as though themselves stars on a white sky.
|
||||
|
||||
Deep indigo shroud
|
||||
Pierced and gouged
|
||||
Light reflected spills
|
||||
Upon white fields
|
||||
Twinkling a promise
|
||||
Of the morrow rise
|
||||
|
||||
Often my first entries will be related to what I’ve read. However, the above
|
||||
poem needed to be written. Capturing at least a bit of that memory.
|
||||
|
||||
I read [29]Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork); and this stinks of someone creating
|
||||
a platform that eases well-funded actors attempting to crack encryption.
|
||||
|
||||
In reading [30]Book Review: Rules for Radicals- A Pragmatic Primer for
|
||||
Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky, I added Rules for Radicals by Saul D.
|
||||
Alinksy to my shopping list. The salient point, of the review, is the book
|
||||
helps equip change agents by asking “What is your theory of change?”
|
||||
|
||||
Reading [31]The Multiplier Effect of Collective Curiosity leads with an ancient
|
||||
practice of walking and wondering together. I’ve done this in past meetings and
|
||||
can say it was some of the most transformative conversations I’ve had. Rarely
|
||||
is there “lone genius” instead this is an effort of collaboration and
|
||||
conversation. Each building upon what we share.
|
||||
|
||||
In [32]Lit Hub Daily: January 15, 2025 I learned about [33]Olga Tokarczuk’s New
|
||||
Rules for Realism | The Nation which reviews The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk;
|
||||
which I added to my shopping list. Why? Olga’s anti-national (e.g. how do we
|
||||
move away from tribalism); and to move forward we’re going to look at how to
|
||||
reduce our us vs. them mindsets.
|
||||
|
||||
Read [34]Why am I not taking pictures?, I responded/reflected and wrote [35]Re:
|
||||
Why am I not playing games?. This makes two responses to Jack in as many days.
|
||||
|
||||
With having finished my RSS [36]📖 feed, I turn to my books of poetry. I grabbed
|
||||
one and opened to somewhere in the middle. I tend to reflect on them a bit
|
||||
more, but this time I didn’t. I suppose I’ll need to re-read it.
|
||||
|
||||
I read the poem A Thousand Dawns from The Half-Life of Angels by Mark Nepo.
|
||||
|
||||
Looking to the Fediverse, there’s statements by the Proton’s CEO and then
|
||||
official Mastodon account that are alarming. Especially given that their threat
|
||||
model includes state actors.
|
||||
|
||||
Finding out that Proton’s CEO is teetering on MAGA-boosting is gross. So I
|
||||
started exploring other options. A cursory review is as follows:
|
||||
|
||||
Email
|
||||
Tuta (see [37]https://tuta.com/)
|
||||
VPN
|
||||
Favor Mullvad VPN (see [38]https://mullvad.net/en)
|
||||
Calendar
|
||||
Tuta (see [39]https://tuta.com/)
|
||||
Password Manager
|
||||
Bitwarden
|
||||
Cloud Storage
|
||||
Run Sync-Thing with multiple devices. I am interested in Synchronization
|
||||
and thus back-up. This looks to be a reasonable pathway. I’ll need to
|
||||
review and establish a Runbook.
|
||||
|
||||
I had heard of SyncThing but didn’t use it. In part because how it was
|
||||
originally used was conflated with a gaslighting mansplaining experience. But
|
||||
don’t throw the technology used out with the people using it. Now the people
|
||||
developing it?
|
||||
|
||||
I started experimenting with syncthing; easy enough to use. Can replace my
|
||||
Cloud Drive (if I get one more device in the loop). However, I must consider
|
||||
how to make this available for my family. I’m using [40]Syncthing-Fork on my
|
||||
Android (as found on [41]Community Contributions — Syncthing documentation) and
|
||||
brew install syncthing on my Mac. It’s just a bit much for non-programmers; but
|
||||
I think there’s some documentation to help.
|
||||
|
||||
The notes are not chronological; I read the following essay before really
|
||||
diving into [42]SyncThing [43]📖 . While writing this post, I opted to create a
|
||||
glossary entry for SyncThing ; but did not amend my journal.
|
||||
|
||||
Before dinner, I read Finance is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debt from
|
||||
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… by David Graeber.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Both nationally and internationally, we are ruled by a ruling class whose
|
||||
profits are based primarily on complex forms of rent extraction, backed by
|
||||
coercive of force.―David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…
|
||||
|
||||
I’m not prepared to take these steps, but understanding what folks are
|
||||
considering is a helpful exercise. Reminding me a bit of the nano swarms from
|
||||
The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.
|
||||
|
||||
I chuckled as I learned about [44]ZADZMO code, namely Nepenthes:
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it’s
|
||||
targeting crawlers that scrape data for Large Language Models (LLMs [45]📖)
|
||||
□ but really, like the plants it is named after, it’ll eat just about
|
||||
anything that finds it’s way inside.
|
||||
|
||||
I’m eager for LLM model collapse, as this hype cycle is one that is hellbent on
|
||||
consuming all creative output. But, I think they are fully on the “sunk cost”
|
||||
fallacy trajectory.
|
||||
|
||||
I drifted off to sleep listening to some Iain M. Banks.
|
||||
|
||||
I read the fourth chapter of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.
|
||||
|
||||
Conclusion
|
||||
|
||||
I had an idea of what I wanted to do. But kept that idea light weight. And
|
||||
started building the habit; expanding upon it. This week I started adapting the
|
||||
journal at work; writing to a different file of course.
|
||||
|
||||
Building from the same habit, has helped in my day to day work. Keeping on top
|
||||
of blockers as well as improving the odds of tracking down past one off work.
|
||||
I’m thinking how I can build from this habit to incorporate a todo list.
|
||||
|
||||
I’ve started many todo lists, but nothing has quite worked. In that I lose
|
||||
momentum using them. Paper lists are the best, and one would think I could
|
||||
simply “make a file on my computer” for these todo items.
|
||||
|
||||
But it doesn’t quite work. So I’m going to do what’s working and reflect on how
|
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Home Planner Setup
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Journal as my weekly planner, a [7]Well Appointed Desk Rebel Plans pad as my
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monthly planner, and a stack of Kokuyo KB A4 paper that I cut in half to make
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A5 sheets.
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and not just the 120gsm edition because I like the endpapers and it was only a
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Lists
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I crossed out all the bullet journal related headers and created list pages of
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my own from page 3 to (potentially) page 75. Currently they include: [8]Unread
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Books on My Kindle, Mindful Consuming (a list of things that I actually want to
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watch, not algorithmically recommended), [9]Conversations not Connections (A
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list of people that I want to invest time in, not just like their Facebook
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posts. This makes sure that I don’t fall out of touch with people, but actively
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initiate phone calls, meetups or skype/zoom calls for those that are abroad),
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List of Courses that I’ve Enrolled To (I started this list during Covid, and it
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tracks which online courses I’ve enrolled to and need to complete), Things from
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Abroad (a running list of packages that I’m expecting. Yes, I know there are
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apps for this, but writing it down helps me be more aware and careful with what
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I’m buying and how much), Blog Post Ideas (self explanatory), Books to Review
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(self explanatory), Medium Post Planning (as part of my focus on work, I
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decided to make my work more visible by writing more Medium posts this year). I
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will be adding to these lists over the next year, and copying them over to the
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next notebook once I finish with this one.
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Quarterly and Weekly Planning
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Starting at page 76, this section will include four quarterly plans and four 13
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week double spreads. Each quarterly plan can take up to four pages (Q1’s plan
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takes 2.5 out of the 4 currently, but that’s OK. The extra is in case something
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major happens and I need to work out a pivot or significant change into my
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plans), and is divided into various subsections. I’ll write a separate post
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about my Q1 plan and how I worked on it, but you can read about the process
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[10]here.
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Then come 13 weekly spreads, each one taking two pages. The left side of the
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page has the weekly calendar, with events on it plus my exercise plan for the
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week. It’s also where I note things that I want to remember that need to happen
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on a certain day that week. Every week on Friday or Saturday evening I plan the
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next week, and for this side of the weekly plan I mark significant weather
|
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events, plan my running, swimming and gym schedule, transfer important events
|
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and meetings from my calendar (these are all things that I need to prepare for
|
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actively), and set reminders (like clean the cats’ water fountain on Friday, or
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replace filters on things, etc).
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The left side of the page is taken mostly by various trackers, and by my weekly
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goals (they go in the empty spot in the middle) which I select from my
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quarterly goals each week. Any goals that can be managed by trackers are
|
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managed by trackers – either trackers in my planner, or trackers in the Streaks
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app. The reason I don’t track everything in an app, is to make sure that I have
|
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to reference this planner at least once, likely twice a day, every day. That
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helps keep the weekly goals, which are tied to the quarterly goals,
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top-of-mind.
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I use two different colours of ink for these pages – when I plan the quarter I
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create 13 weekly spreads with just the dates and the “Weekly Tasks” title with
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the week number. Then I work everything else in on a week by week basis with
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whatever fountain pen I am using at the time. That helps keep things clearer
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for me without me having to spend a lot of time “prettifying” my planner.
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[img_3320-1-1]Weekly page in my home planner
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Daily Plan
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Every day I take a sheet of A5 Kokuyo KB paper and write the day and the date
|
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on top. Then I write a running list of tasks that I want to complete that day.
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This includes chores, daily routines, and tasks that I’ve pulled from my weekly
|
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planner. I cross them off as I go along, and at the end of the day either I
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flip the page and create another daily planner for the next day on the other
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side of the page, or I crumple the page up (if it’s used on both sides) and
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throw it into the recycling bin. I don’t keep these pages, since anything
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important in them is already in my journal.
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I recently started tracking if I prepare a daily plan for every day at work and
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at home, and the reason is that I’ve discovered time and again that if I don’t
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have a plan, I am liable to just get back from work and veg out with a book or
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silly YouTube videos.
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Monthly Plan
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The monthly planner is tiny, and its only goal is to give me a better feel for
|
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how my month looks, and what major events lay ahead. It also tracks some things
|
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– books (which I track on a monthly basis), running (I track this twice because
|
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I also want to get a feel for my monthly load), swimming (the same – tracked on
|
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both weekly and monthly basis to get a better feel for my training load), gym
|
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(which doesn’t appear in the photo below because I haven’t finished creating
|
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the page), blog (how many blog posts I’ve written this month), and there’s
|
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usually an Apple challenge tracker.
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[img_3321]Monthly planner
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What About Projects/Backlog Items?
|
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Most of my long term projects are tracked as part of the quarterly plan. For
|
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instance, I’m working on getting a certain professional certification this
|
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quarter, so I have that certification listed under my professional goals. The
|
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breakdown of this headline to individual tasks is something I do in the project
|
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specific notebook that I’m using for my study notes, tips that I’ve collected
|
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about the exam, etc. I then can just reference the headline task (the
|
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certification name in this case) in my weekly and daily plans, and reference
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what exactly I’m supposed to be working on next in my project notebook. It
|
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saves having to copy a lot of things over and over.
|
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As for general “backlog” items (shopping lists, packing lists, travel plans,
|
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things I want to get to sometime in the future but aren’t part of my quarterly
|
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plan, recurring tasks tied to various medical checkups, etc) – these are all
|
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managed in the Things app. It’s easier to manage recurring and long term tasks
|
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like these in an app, and when it comes time to actually do them I reference
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them (or sometimes copy them) into my weekly and daily plans. I have very few
|
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tasks in Things, and sweep of the tasks there once or twice a week is enough to
|
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ensure that I haven’t forgotten anything.
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Work Planner Setup
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This consists of a Leuchtturm1917 dotted A5 hardcover notebook that I bought at
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the local art museum, and Maruman Mnemosyne A5 with blank paper (though I also
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use the squared paper Mnemosyne indiscriminately, if that happens to be what’s
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available). As I work 3 days a week from an office and 2 days a week from home
|
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I needed a setup that’s as simple and as light to carry as possible, and after
|
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some trial and error this is what I’ve been using for over a year.
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[img_3316]My work planner and a piece of blotting paper – a must with this
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paper
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The work planner, my Leuchtturm, is a daily planner, with each day divided into
|
||||
three parts. The top of the page has the day and the date, and the upper third
|
||||
part of every page is for the tasks I plan on working on that day. I
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deliberately make sure that less than half of the A5 page is left for tasks,
|
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because otherwise I’ll just jam in much more than I can do in a day and then
|
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feel bad at the end of the day for no good reason.
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The last thing I do before signing out at work is to fill in the next day’s
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page. That includes pulling out the next tasks I plan on working on from Jira
|
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(we use Jira to plan tasks and projects at work), and leaving about half of the
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task area open for things that will pop up during the day. The nature of my job
|
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is that I’m constantly working on about 50% unplanned things, so I have to
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leave myself enough room to take that into account.
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Next come the meetings, which I track under a separate heading. I set them
|
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apart so that they don’t disappear into my ever changing task list. This is
|
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also useful for me to reference when I’m planning my day, both in terms of how
|
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many tasks I think I can get to, and in terms of preparing for certain
|
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meetings.
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The Notes section is where I write down things that I need to take into account
|
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or remember that day. If a team member is taking a day off I note it here to
|
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remind myself not to message them. If I am on “on call” duty I note it here so
|
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that I can significantly reduce the number of tasks I’m working on that day. I
|
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also look ahead a bit, and if I see a project deadline looming, I’ll note it in
|
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the notes section, so that I remember to prioritize my tasks accordingly.
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[img_3318]Daily spread in my work planner
|
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The Mnemosyne serves as my “dashboard” and catch all. If I’m working on a
|
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project, this is where I’ll plan out the project before inputting whatever
|
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relevant tasks there are into Jira. I reference and work with this page while
|
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I’m working on the project, and that’s why I view this notebook as the
|
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“dashboard” for my current work.
|
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The Mnemosyne is also where I keep a running list of things I want to get to.
|
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All of these things will have to be formalized into Jira tasks before I can
|
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work on them, but it’s useful for me to have them down on paper first because I
|
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think better on paper.
|
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[img_3319]Maruman Mnemosyne “Dashboard”
|
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|
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I don’t use scrap paper at work as I want to be able to reference these things
|
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in the future, and as a rule I don’t journal about my work tasks.
|
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That’s my full planner setup for 2025, and as all of it has been in use
|
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throughout 2024 with great success I doubt that it will see much change.
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Happy New Year!
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This is the time of year when people set resolutions, themes, goals,
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intentions, words of the year, etc. Ambitions are high, intentions are good,
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Exercise
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Any amount and any kind that you can do is excellent. Let’s repeat that: ANY
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amount of exercise and ANY kind of exercise is a tremendous win. Start with
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walking if nothing else speaks to you, but try to make sure it’s a brisk walk
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and not a shuffle if you can. It doesn’t need to take an hour, and it doesn’t
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need to be 10,000 steps. Remember, anything you can do is good. Local gyms and
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community centres usually have classes you can try out if you want to give
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yoga, pilates, kickboxing or jiujitsu a try.
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Running offers the best “bang for your buck” in terms of time and money
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invested per health and fitness gains, but not everyone can run, and not
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everyone enjoys running. If you want to give running a start, I recommend using
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any “couch to 5k” app, and then transitioning to the excellent guided runs and
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training plans in the free [5]NRC app to keep you going. If you need someone to
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keep you accountable, either join a group of some sort or find a friend or
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family member to work out with.
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The [6]NTC app offers a huge variety of training options – from yoga to full
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equipment gym workouts, with some excellent body-weight workouts in between.
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Swimming is a great low impact way to build up cardio and a bit of strength,
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and weight-lifting isn’t as intimidating as you think – a pair of dumbbells at
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home is a great way to start exploring it. [7]Yoga with Adriene is great way to
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get into yoga if you don’t or can’t take a class and the NTC app seems too
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intimidating.
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Soccer, basketball, baseball and other group sports are great ways to expand
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your social circle, and tennis, pickleball, badminton are great ways for
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couples to work out together.
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The easiest way of getting into the habit is doing a little something every
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day, and doing it as soon after you wake up as possible. That way you start the
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day with a win and some endorphins, which is always a nice way to start your
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day.
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If you think you don’t have time to work out, be honest with yourself and track
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your time for a day or two. How much time is spent on social media? Binge
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watching TV? Mindless scrolling? Could you cut some of that out? Could you go
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to sleep a little earlier and wake up a little earlier so you can have some
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If you already have a solid exercise routine in place, take the time to
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diversify it if you can. This goes particularly to us runners: strength train.
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Swim. Cycle. Do things that aren’t just running, because just running is one of
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the main causes of such relatively high injury rates amongst runners compared
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to other athletes.
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Reading
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Most people don’t read, which is their loss because reading is a superpower.
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Train your brain off the social media dopamine hamster wheel and teach it how
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to focus for significant stretches of time by picking up a reading habit.
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You’re standing in line bored? Open your Kindle app and pick up that detective
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novel or space opera from where you left off. Replace TikTok, social media and
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YouTube with books, and make sure that they’re books that you want to read.
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Don’t go off bestseller lists or influencer recommendations or whatever one
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this or that award, or is considered a classic. When you’re getting back into
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reading you need to gradually train your mind to get used to this activity.
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Start with a book that really interests you (not one that’s impressive), and
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start with a physical copy because they’re easier to read. Reading will do to
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your brain what exercise does for all of your body: make you better, stronger,
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faster, healthier and happier.
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If you’re already a reader, then mix things up a bit: if you only read
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non-fiction, read fiction for a change and vice versa. Try something new,
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because you may just end up liking it. If you’ve only done light reading so
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far, pick a challenging book and work your way through it. Treat your brain
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like a muscle you are training, where you gradually progress to bigger and
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bigger weights. Challenging books are often the most rewarding, but you
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probably should start with them.
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Journaling
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Digital or analog, it doesn’t matter, journaling is worth doing. Gain insight
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environment. This is the path to self improvement, learning to be kind to
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yourself, and having a positive mental attitude towards life.
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If you’ve never journaled before, start small and simple: pick a notebook that
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you will enjoy writing in (whatever speaks to you, no matter what other people
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think), use whatever pen or pencil you fancy, and write 3-5 things you are
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grateful for each day. Add more sections to your daily journal as you go along:
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a “story of the day”, an account of what you did or what you consumed and what
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you thought about it, a nightly summary, etc.
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Make it a ritual of sorts: write in your journal every morning and evening,
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every time you switch between major tasks during the day, or when you feel the
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need to respond to something (don’t post online, post in your journal instead).
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Don’t be intimidated by gorgeous and elaborate works of art in various
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journaling forums, blogs and on Instagram. These are journals as craft
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projects, and while they are nice, they aren’t what we’re trying to get to
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here. It’s OK to add stickers and bits and bobs to your journal, but its
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purpose shouldn’t be to be photographed and posted. It’s there to work for you,
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so treat it like a workhorse, not a circus pony. Also, remind yourself that
|
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many of these journal photos are there to sell: stickers, washi tape, pens,
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notebooks, ink, the poster’s journaling course, etc. People rarely show off
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their “real” journals because if you’re honestly journaling only for yourself,
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Daphna Kedmi
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[30]January 4, 2025 at 11:16 am
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Happy New Year, my friend. Health, an end to war and the return of the
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hostages to their families, that’s all I wish for at this time. All the
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[34]Elizabeth
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[35]January 4, 2025 at 11:58 am
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Excellent suggestions! I especially like your phrase, “the social media
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dopamine hamster wheel.” My husband is 87; I am 73. We have been avid
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readers, writers, mountain hikers, walkers, weight trainers, and learners
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for many years, and can attest to the value of your suggestions. We’ve been
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lucky enough to have each other as life partners, lovers, and best friends,
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too. I’m happy to have discovered your blog, and look forward to exploring
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your 13-week calendar system.
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[39]Elizabeth
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[40]January 4, 2025 at 7:23 pm
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Now that I’ve looked around your blog a bit (so much to explore!), I
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wanted to share that my husband was diagnosed with mantle cell
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non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014, went through chemo and radiation, and
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has been in remission ever since. The docs at Mayo Clinic are loath to
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use the “cure” word, but are doing it now with him on this one. He is
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10+ years out, now.
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[44]Elizabeth
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[45]January 4, 2025 at 7:25 pm
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I forgot to add — I will always believe his high level of fitness
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pre-diagnosis was helpful to his recovery.
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[48]writingatlarge
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[49]January 4, 2025 at 8:16 pm
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Thank you for sharing that – I hope that he remains in remission
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forever. Much health to you both!
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[2]Résumé [3]Peace Corps [4]Posts [5]Bookshelf [6]Weeknotes
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Table Of Contents
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[8]How I journal
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How I journal
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I’ve had a seemingly typical journaling experience over the years: try
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journaling because someone smart told me it’s good for me, white-knuckle my way
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through how I should be doing it, it doesn’t stick, I don’t journal for a
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while, and repeat that endlessly. Last year, I finally landed on a journaling
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system that works for me.
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I’ve been out of the habit for over a month now^[12]1 so I wanted to write
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about my system to get me excited about it again and restart the habit. Here we
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go.
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Five points—Location, win, tension, gratitude, and values
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I’ve tried physical notebooks, morning pages, stream-of-thought writing, bullet
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points, and basically everything else recommended by the journaling gurus. What
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finally stuck was a framework I learned from Sahil Bloom—[13]the 1-1-1 method.
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I’ve adapted it for myself such that I write down five points each night (in a
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perfect world).
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• Location. The more specific the better. It’s fun to read old entries and
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remember exactly what hotel room I was in or whose house I was staying at.
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• One win. The highlight of the day. Something that made me smile or feel
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proud.
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• One point of tension. Something that caused anxiety, stress, or anything
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else I struggled with or am dreading.
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• One piece of gratitude. We all know by now that writing down things you’re
|
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grateful for is good for the soul.
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• One behavior that connects to my values. This is an addition that I made to
|
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ensure that my [14]values and behaviors are aligned. Did I do something
|
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today that I say is important to me?
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Each of these is usually just a sentence but the door is open to expand where I
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want. If something really great happened that day, I’ll savor it by writing a
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paragraph or more. If I was feeling particularly anxious, I’ll explore that
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further.
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Why this system works for me
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The thing that made journaling hard to do consistently—like any habit—was that
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there was too much friction. I never really knew what was worth writing and
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what wasn’t, what future me was interested in remembering and what he didn’t
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care about. Journaling always became more of a chore than anything else,
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something I felt like I should be doing but didn’t want to. Like eating
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vegetables or going to the gym.
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On the days when I can’t be bothered to do anything, I only need to write five
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things. Sometimes they aren’t even full sentences—it takes me about 30 seconds
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minimum. But this system is also flexible enough to give me space to dig down
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when I want to.
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Besides being easier to write, it’s also more interesting to read back entries
|
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later on. When I was semi-consistent with just writing down what I did for the
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day, reading them back the next month was so dull. I journal partly to document
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my life and I don’t really care that I bought bread on May 8th, 2023. This
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system does a fantastic job of capturing the meaningful highs and lows of my
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life without cluttering my journal with the boring stuff.
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What it looks like in practice
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I’m on my computer quite a lot and typing has always been easier than
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handwriting for me. Not to mention my abysmal handwriting that can be hard to
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read sometimes. So, I do all of this in a digital journal.
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Herman Martinus [15]wrote about the many benefits that come from plain text
|
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journaling. When my journal is One Big Text File, it is easy to back up, move
|
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around, search, edit, and store. I use [16]jrnl to add some “sugar” on top of
|
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it, though.
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jrnl works through the command line and I can just type jrnl to create a new
|
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timestamped entry in my text editor of choice. Again, I really try to reduce
|
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friction when it comes to journaling and this is about as frictionless as it
|
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gets. It also allows templating, searching, tagging, and tools to view specific
|
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entries. My favorite feature is jrnl -today-in-history that returns all of my
|
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previous entries for the given day.
|
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When I’m not at my computer, I usually handwrite my five points in my Moleskine
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notebook that I use for tasks and notes. When I’m back to my computer, I
|
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transcribe it into jrnl. In a pinch, I can also write myself a Signal message
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to copy and paste later.
|
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|
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With this journaling system, I am recording, analyzing, and remembering the
|
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important bits of my life in a way that is easy and sustainable for me. Now I
|
||||
just need to go out and get started—yet again.
|
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|
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1. Due to a major life transition. I probably should have been journaling more
|
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but it ended up on the back burner for one reason or another. [17]↩
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[13] https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-1-1-1-method-forecasts-for-the-future-more
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[14] https://every.to/no-small-plans/how-to-identify-and-live-your-life-by-your-values
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Cancellation: a complex mix of accountability, power, justice, anger and
|
||||
societal change
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||||
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||||
Driving out people can be emotionally satisfying and create a sense of justice.
|
||||
But is it actually making the world better?
|
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|
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[10] Adam Tinworth
|
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[11]Adam Tinworth
|
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|
||||
24 Jan 2025 — 8 min read
|
||||
Cancellation: a complex mix of accountability, power, justice, anger and
|
||||
societal change
|
||||
|
||||
What’s the point of “cancellation”? I don't mean that in the “it's pointless”
|
||||
sense, but in the “what are you trying to achieve by it” sense. Is it about
|
||||
justice, or accountability, or community protection, or making the world
|
||||
better? Or is it about the thrill of the mob? Motivations matter.
|
||||
|
||||
If you ask people what the point of cancelling people is, they might deny it
|
||||
happens. [12]But it clearly does, and sometimes quite justifiably. And then
|
||||
they might say “accountability” and that seems like a good answer — until you
|
||||
think about it. Because accountability implies power. And as soon as you
|
||||
express that you are holding somebody accountable, you are saying that you want
|
||||
to have, or feel you do have, power over them.
|
||||
|
||||
There’s a reason that civilised countries punish through systems and courts,
|
||||
not through mobs. The rule of law exists to prevent the rule of the mob. And
|
||||
that’s because the rule of the mob is inherently divisive: it splits groups
|
||||
into us and them. And sadly, we can see the degree to which the rise of social
|
||||
media, and its facilitation of accountability through mob, has damaged our
|
||||
societies, through greater polarisation and the splitting of people into
|
||||
in-groups and out-groups. That’s worth examining.
|
||||
|
||||
Now, I’ve come a long way on this. Long, long ago, I wrote positively about the
|
||||
power of collective action to [13]bring down a gagging order. And many of us
|
||||
watched the [14]Arab Spring with awe and delight. Collective action in the face
|
||||
of unjust laws, structures, systems, and processes can be an incredible thing.
|
||||
|
||||
Accountability or power?
|
||||
|
||||
But when that power is turned on an individual? That’s a very different thing.
|
||||
I know, from my own past, that being an individual on the receiving end of
|
||||
group disapproval for being different is horrible, and psychologically
|
||||
damaging. We’ve only recently started taking bullying as seriously as we
|
||||
should. And I still carry the psychological scars of the intense physical,
|
||||
mental and emotional bullying I endured as a school child in the 1980s.
|
||||
|
||||
When that mob justice spreads to societal groups picking on individuals, it can
|
||||
become very difficult. There’s a reason that we use “witch hunt” and “lynch
|
||||
mob” as negative terms. They are not societally healthy ways of expressing the
|
||||
boundaries of acceptable behaviour. When a mob gets going, it too often loses
|
||||
sight of little things like “evidence” and “compassion”. Mobs tend to be
|
||||
dehumanising both to their members, as well as to their victims.
|
||||
|
||||
So, when you start a targeted move against an individual, when you stoke up
|
||||
social media outrage against them, questions need to be asked not just about
|
||||
your target, but about your own motivations. Accountability, in a community,
|
||||
counts both ways. And the biggest question is: is you wielding that power
|
||||
actually helping the people you claim to be helping? Because if it’s not, then
|
||||
you’re just wielding power for your own pleasure.
|
||||
|
||||
You’re a bully.
|
||||
|
||||
And that’s a problem — and possibly even a counterproductive one. Because the
|
||||
experience of my life is that you create lasting change by persuading people,
|
||||
not by wielding power over them. You can’t force me to believe anything. But
|
||||
you can persuade me that I need to alter my beliefs. And that, person by
|
||||
person, can create change at a societal scale. When you have enough support at
|
||||
a societal level, you can affect community (and legislative) change in a way
|
||||
that lasts.
|
||||
|
||||
Changing society by changing people
|
||||
|
||||
I came of age during the height of the movement for gay rights. That movement
|
||||
largely won in the UK by persuading people that being gay wasn’t being “other”,
|
||||
but something normal. I grew up with literally nobody who was both gay and out
|
||||
around me. Being gay was very much “other” to me. It’s easy to see why people
|
||||
stayed firmly in the closet. Anyone who came out in the 1980s in a Scottish
|
||||
school would have supplanted me as the best person to bully pretty damn
|
||||
quickly.
|
||||
|
||||
But, within a year of coming to London for university, that changed. Friends
|
||||
came out to me, and I made friends with people who were out before I knew them.
|
||||
My emotional reaction to gay people quickly aligned with my pre-existing
|
||||
intellectual response, of wondering what the hell was the point of forcing
|
||||
people to pretend to be something they aren’t, and deny their selves? But I was
|
||||
an easy convert. I was already inclined towards that belief.
|
||||
|
||||
My parents’ generation? Much harder. Nevertheless, I saw my parents change
|
||||
their views. They were what I would describe as culturally homophobic because
|
||||
the culture at the time was homophobic. And then they met my gay friends, and
|
||||
the “otherness” disappeared. By the time they retired and moved south, they
|
||||
were friends with the gay couple who lived in the folly behind their house.
|
||||
Indeed, one of that couple would go on to be the organist that played in the
|
||||
church for both of my parents' funerals. They would have been touched by that.
|
||||
Both of them expressed bafflement that the church was having such an issue with
|
||||
gay people at the time. Change.
|
||||
|
||||
And this was just part of a much wider move in society through the 90s and the
|
||||
2000s. It says something of the success of the gay rights movement in the UK
|
||||
that it was our [15]mainstream right-wing party that granted marriage equality.
|
||||
|
||||
If I’d cancelled my parents over that earlier views, would they have been as
|
||||
much a part of that shift as they were?
|
||||
|
||||
Normalisation is a powerful tool of change
|
||||
|
||||
The more we cancel people, the more we hinder the process of normalisation. And
|
||||
that process I see profoundly changing the world around me. My daughters have
|
||||
grown up with a gay couple living a few doors down; they studied in a school
|
||||
where one of their fellow pupils has two dads. They attend a church where they
|
||||
regularly chat with an elderly lesbian couple and their delightful dog, and
|
||||
where they’re welcomed by a trans woman. One of the eldest’s school friends has
|
||||
a trans woman parent. The reality of the world around them makes many
|
||||
homophobic and transphobic views look utterly ridiculous to them.
|
||||
|
||||
Now, how does that function online?
|
||||
|
||||
There’s a very specific community I’m alluding to here because a member of that
|
||||
community is currently under attack. Why? A combination of things. He’s shown
|
||||
enthusiasm for a certain individual’s automative and astronautics endeavours
|
||||
which others feel are too tainted by his politics, and also for some statements
|
||||
that, I think, were certainly ill-judged, and could easily be viewed as
|
||||
discriminatory. I’m certainly not comfortable with them, and would be
|
||||
re-evaluating my position if they recur.
|
||||
|
||||
However, that community which he has been part of building is, in my
|
||||
perception, largely LGBTQIA+ friendly. Many of the people I follow and interact
|
||||
with fit into that spectrum. It’s… normal there. This is a community where
|
||||
LGBTQIA+ acceptance is normal, and the statements he made are considered
|
||||
abnormal. That’s healthy. Now, the question is: should he be driven from that
|
||||
community?
|
||||
|
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Accountability in action
|
||||
|
||||
We can’t escape the fact that he has said things that make some of those people
|
||||
uncomfortable. Nor should we. That’s clearly an issue. And somebody external to
|
||||
that community is demanding that he be held accountable, that the community
|
||||
owner makes very specific statements, and that the individual is removed from
|
||||
paid employment in the community and, by extension, the community itself.
|
||||
|
||||
This is, in my mind, very much about power, even if expressed through the
|
||||
language of accountability and allyship. Some of the phraseology the individual
|
||||
uses makes that apparent. Here’s just one example:
|
||||
|
||||
I get that you might not experience bigotry the same way that others do,
|
||||
and maybe this affects your ability to recognize when harm has been done.
|
||||
That’s for you to work on.
|
||||
|
||||
That would have been a more useful statement without that last sentence. It’s
|
||||
very hard not to read that one in a way that’s both patronising and superior.
|
||||
He’s literally telling somebody else what they’re experiencing and what they
|
||||
should do. There’s a tone of moral authority to it that lacks humility. And
|
||||
he’s also, in other postings, demanding very specific things from the community
|
||||
owner — statements, answers to questions, removal of a staff member — and will
|
||||
continue to trash his business online if he doesn’t get it. And all of that
|
||||
from a competitor.
|
||||
|
||||
It’s difficult to see a clear moral high ground here.
|
||||
|
||||
Let’s, as a thought experiment, think about what that means if it comes to
|
||||
pass.
|
||||
|
||||
The impact of exclusion
|
||||
|
||||
First of all, that individual is removed from a community where certain ideas
|
||||
that maybe he’s uncomfortable with are normalised. It’s likely that the places
|
||||
he’ll find welcoming are going to share much more extreme versions of those
|
||||
views. How does it help the LGBTQIA+ community to drive people away into the
|
||||
arms of those people? It just takes someone and forges them into an enemy. My
|
||||
God, now of all times, the LGBTQIA+ community do NOT need more enemies.
|
||||
|
||||
But if we allow the normal social process of “mate, that’s out of order.
|
||||
Apologise, and let’s move on” happen, the process of normalisation can
|
||||
continue, as it did for my parents years ago. They can see that these people
|
||||
and their allies aren’t the enemy, but just people with different ways of
|
||||
being, desires and life choices. They’re not a threat. Fundamentally, they’re
|
||||
just people who happen to be LGBTQIA+.
|
||||
|
||||
🙏
|
||||
One of the things I like about the Christian idea of forgiveness, once I
|
||||
engaged with it seriously, is that it’s not about the person being forgiven;
|
||||
it’s about the person doing the forgiving. It’s about the damage one does to
|
||||
oneself by carrying hatred and anger in your heart.
|
||||
|
||||
Now, I’m not denying that there are people whose views are so abhorrent and who
|
||||
are so unrepentant that yes, community exclusion is the only path for the good
|
||||
of the community. Any community is defined by its rules and its norms, but
|
||||
those are only real if enforced. Community management is a skill, and a vital
|
||||
one. And that means knowing when exclusion is for the good of the community.
|
||||
|
||||
But when people try to force out people who have yet to prove that they can’t
|
||||
clear that bar, it looks more like an exercise of power. Currently, my position
|
||||
is that, if the individual proves unrepentant and continues down this path,
|
||||
then yes, community exclusion would be the best outcome. But I don’t, yet, see
|
||||
that signs that it is necessary.
|
||||
|
||||
🇺🇸
|
||||
It’s also worth noting that, as so often happens online, all this is being
|
||||
filtered through the lens of US politics. The individual in question does not
|
||||
live in the US; he lives in Eastern Europe. Different country, different
|
||||
culture, different social norms. Not an excuse — but relevant context.
|
||||
|
||||
The acquisition of power
|
||||
|
||||
And that brings me to the second consequence of my thought experiment: if it
|
||||
all happens as the external person wishes, they are now effectively in charge
|
||||
of the community. They police what is and isn’t acceptable within the
|
||||
community, not the owner, and not the members. That’s not about allyship, or
|
||||
accountability. That’s about power, pure and simple. And when that person owns
|
||||
a direct competitor, well, there are some questions to be asked about
|
||||
motivation.
|
||||
|
||||
That would, for me, be the end of that community. Because this particular space
|
||||
is both a business and a community, and this is where community management
|
||||
comes into play. The business owner can do whatever he likes, but the space and
|
||||
the community are not the same thing: one hosts the other. And that community
|
||||
will, and should, make its own decision about the situation.
|
||||
|
||||
I’m always open to persuasion, but I’m never happy to be told what I should
|
||||
think. As a member of the community, I’m happy to have potential problems
|
||||
pointed out, and will evaluate the evidence and the behaviour of the person in
|
||||
question, exactly as I do and have in the physical, proximate communities I’m
|
||||
part of. But, collectively, we as community members make the decision — or
|
||||
judge the community host on how he handles it.
|
||||
|
||||
Justice is slow and deliberate. And that’s a lesson from history.
|
||||
|
||||
What I will not put up with is a style of political witch-hunting and language
|
||||
emerging in a community that I joined specifically to avoid that. Enough of my
|
||||
life has been tainted by bullies. I won’t grant them my attention, and that
|
||||
includes well-meaning bullies, who think they are on the side of the angels.
|
||||
|
||||
There is a tension between real-world processes of justice, which grind slowly
|
||||
and with deliberation for good reasons, and the adrenaline and anger fuelled
|
||||
quest for justice in social media. I know which I prefer.
|
||||
|
||||
We need to bring the lessons of history into our new social spaces. And we need
|
||||
to do more work to untangle the complicated threads of accountability, power,
|
||||
activism and societal change that underlie that loaded word “cancellation”.
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|
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||||
Walking the narrow path between tech utopianism and digital cynicism
|
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|
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We’ve been burnt by the tech companies, and we’re rightfully wary. But slipping
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[117]Rebecca Shaw
|
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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going
|
||||
down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The “ending
|
||||
in shit” kind. The issues are complicated, the reasons diverse, but there are a
|
||||
few culprits who have been making themselves extremely visible.
|
||||
|
||||
Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to
|
||||
invent a new number) like Elon Musk and [119]Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield
|
||||
huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has
|
||||
been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape
|
||||
the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things
|
||||
lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the
|
||||
sprinkling of salt in the wound.
|
||||
|
||||
Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a
|
||||
man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and
|
||||
appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are
|
||||
doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe.
|
||||
|
||||
[120]
|
||||
Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros
|
||||
inauguration derby | Marina Hyde
|
||||
Read more
|
||||
|
||||
I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry
|
||||
led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down.
|
||||
What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly
|
||||
cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty,
|
||||
for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be
|
||||
such huge losers.
|
||||
|
||||
I’ve always been someone who cannot tolerate embarrassment. I hate being
|
||||
embarrassed more than just about any other emotion and I’ve always skipped
|
||||
content based on cringe humour like Meet the Parents, Borat or Nathan for You.
|
||||
It makes my skin crawl and it makes the contents of my stomach try to crawl out
|
||||
of my mouth. But I cannot skip world events.
|
||||
|
||||
Nor can I skip Musk’s clear desperation, even as he holds this much wealth and
|
||||
power in his hands, to be thought of as cool. There are [121]endless examples
|
||||
of him embarrassing himself while attempting to be funny or to gain respect.
|
||||
Unfortunately, while you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a
|
||||
good personality. Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his
|
||||
endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an
|
||||
11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying.
|
||||
If yet another humiliating report in the last couple of days is to be believed,
|
||||
he appears even to have lost the respect of some of his gamer audience, [122]
|
||||
who the report claims suspect that he may have been lying about his
|
||||
achievements in hardcore gaming (cursed sentence).
|
||||
|
||||
Zuckerberg is a different kind of cringe – but cringe all the same. His cringe
|
||||
moments drip through more sparingly but, when they do, my body tries to turn
|
||||
inside out at my bellybutton. His physical makeover for Maga reasons, [123]
|
||||
performing music because no one will stop him, trying to [124]look cool on a
|
||||
surfboard – all these are extremely difficult to watch. He has been trying to
|
||||
suck up to Trump, [125]going on Joe Rogan’s show to say society has been
|
||||
“neutered” and companies need “more masculine energy”.
|
||||
|
||||
Putting on what is clearly a bro disguise to join the boys’ club and sit at the
|
||||
big boy table – it should feel humiliating. This came as Zuckerberg [126]rolled
|
||||
back hate speech and factchecking rules at Meta, in a clear swerve to the right
|
||||
before Trump’s inauguration. What could be more masculine and cool than selling
|
||||
out vulnerable communities and women to impress the alpha male?
|
||||
|
||||
Climate crises keep coming, genocides continue, women keep getting murdered,
|
||||
art is being strangled to death by AI, bigotry is on the rise, social progress
|
||||
is being rolled back … AND these men insist on being cringe? It’s a rotten
|
||||
cherry on top. This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror,
|
||||
one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for. The second-hand
|
||||
embarrassment we have to endure gets even more potent when combined with other
|
||||
modern influences on young men, like [127]Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.
|
||||
|
||||
[128]
|
||||
Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]
|
||||
’? | Arwa Mahdawi
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
Peterson is a big voice in men’s rights – well, a small Kermit’s voice in men’s
|
||||
rights – and he’s also an embarrassment. So much so that he has his own [129]
|
||||
Know Your Meme page, which covers that time [130]he[131] [132]reportedly
|
||||
retweeted an image from a fetish film, apparently believing it was a Chinese
|
||||
communist “sperm extraction” facility. He deleted it shortly afterwards.
|
||||
|
||||
Tate is facing human trafficking charges but rose to fame as a voice for young
|
||||
men, a misogynist in bad outfits who does really cool things like smoking
|
||||
cigars, wearing sunnies inside and trying to drag human rights back 100 years.
|
||||
|
||||
Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most
|
||||
embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to
|
||||
live your life is even sadder.
|
||||
|
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I’ve worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep
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but the whole apparatus looks increasingly precarious.
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corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because
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kinds of societal and individual harm that can plausibly cause them regulatory
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trouble or user disengagement. (The set of things that can cause trouble is
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profit-extraction machinery—which mostly means that they come in on the margins
|
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and after the fact, as in "[12]after the fact of a genocide that Facebook had
|
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years of explicit advance warnings about." Working on the margins and after the
|
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fact still matters—less damage is better than more damage—but it means "trust
|
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and safety" is kept well clear of the core.
|
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|
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Again, this is all simple and obvious. A tractor structurally can't spare a
|
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thought for the lives of the fieldmice; shouting at the tractor when it
|
||||
destroys their nests is a category error. Business does business. The
|
||||
production line doesn't stop just because a few people lose fingers or lives.
|
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And what is a modern corporation but a legal spell for turning reasoning beings
|
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into temporarily vacant machines? We know this, which is why we have OSHA and
|
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the FAA and the FTC, for now.
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|
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It's no surprise that when prodded by entities with cultural or regulatory
|
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power, platforms build more semi-effective AI classifiers, hire more underpaid
|
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contract moderators, and temporarily stiffen their unevenly enforced community
|
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rules, but then immediately slump back toward their natural form, which appears
|
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to be a cartoonishly overgrown early-2000s web forum crammed with soft targets
|
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and overrun by trolling, spam, and worse.
|
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It’s possible to make the argument that sufficiently strong leadership could
|
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make even a tech corporation appear to be capable of holding an ethical line,
|
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and maybe even capable of accepting slightly smaller profits in service of
|
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socially beneficial goals—and that, conversely, the awful people in charge are
|
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the main source of the problems. It’s not a very good argument, though, even
|
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when I make it myself.
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|
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Yes, X is currently controlled by a bizarrely gibbering billionaire with
|
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obvious symptoms of late-stage Mad King disease. Yes, Facebook and
|
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Instagram—which control vastly more territory than X—are controlled by a
|
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feckless, Tulip-craze-mainlining billionaire with a long history of grudgingly
|
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up-regulating governance efforts when under public or governmental pressure and
|
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then immediately axeing them when the spotlight moves on. But would these
|
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platforms inflict less damage if they were led by people who valued the well
|
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being of others? Probably yes, to a degree. Twitter/X has offered a lurid
|
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natural experiment, and the changes in X after it moved from Jack Dorsey’s
|
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spacey techno-libertarian leadership to Elon Musk’s desperately needy
|
||||
quasi-fascist circus act have been obviously bad. A version of Meta founded and
|
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led by someone with a reasonably sharp ethical grounding clearly wouldn’t look
|
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much like the real Meta at all.
|
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|
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On the other hand, TikTok’s social function is reasonably close to Meta and
|
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X’s, and the fact that [13]its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seems like a relatively
|
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normal person, doesn’t seem to have correlated with dramatically better
|
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performance in eliminating [14]Nazi organizing, [15]genocidal and
|
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violence-inciting content, [16]CSAM distribution ([17]archive link), or the
|
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kind of [18]semi-pro disinformation that makes it harder for people
|
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experiencing natural disasters to understand what’s happening.
|
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|
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Crucially, more reasonable CEO behavior doesn’t seem to prevent the lower-level
|
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and potentially even more destructive social effects of platforms that [19]
|
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Henry Farrell persuasively explains from a social theory perspective, or that
|
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Renée DiResta memorably calls a “Cambrian explosion of subjective, bespoke
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realities” in [20]Invisible Rulers.* (I'll do a separate post collecting
|
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thoughts on this angle, because it's too important to breeze by.)
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The realities of our moment also work against arguments for the potential of
|
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heroic leadership: even apparently level-headed tech executives now appear to
|
||||
understand that the next Trump Administration intends to rule unreasonably and
|
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vengefully, and that failure to [21]perform obeisance and [22]make tribute may
|
||||
result in federal interference that could plausibly unmake their companies.
|
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|
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Those are not risks any global corporation can take, but our oddball lineup of
|
||||
big platform companies is in a special bind. No matter how desperately they
|
||||
want to be seen as neutral utilities, they have functioned, for good and ill,
|
||||
like social and political wrecking balls—and real or feigned misapprehensions
|
||||
about algorithms and censorship notwithstanding, real-world governments
|
||||
understand this. The second coming of Trump makes the situation especially
|
||||
stark, but the underlying dynamics are neither new nor temporary.
|
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|
||||
Given that every large platform posing as a public square has put itself into
|
||||
the genuinely untenable situation of acting as a global corporate arbiter of
|
||||
politically hot speech, they will all always be in the gunsights of the world’s
|
||||
least reasonable governments. This was bad enough for the platforms when the
|
||||
least reasonable governments were Putin’s or Erdoğan’s or Modi’s—a truly
|
||||
unreasonable government in control of their home jurisdiction is an existential
|
||||
threat.
|
||||
|
||||
And again, in reality, the corporations are configured to try to address the
|
||||
least political kinds of abuse—CSAM, spam, scams, and a few other forms of
|
||||
inauthentic behavior—and very little else. As a result, they can’t govern more
|
||||
subtle or politicized speech for much longer than I can roll a quarter down a
|
||||
piece of string.
|
||||
|
||||
So what would it take for a corporation to become capable of good governance of
|
||||
things like political speech, incitement to violence and genocide, hate speech,
|
||||
most forms of inauthentic behavior, and platform manipulation? Two things, at
|
||||
least:
|
||||
|
||||
• The ability and willingness to take and hold ethical stances that will be
|
||||
sharply unpopular with large swathes of the people mostly likely to
|
||||
effectively target them with legislation and abuses of power, and
|
||||
• the ability and willingness to devote something approaching the majority of
|
||||
their company’s time, money, and attention to building and running [23]
|
||||
devolved or [24]federated systems for doing high-performance high-context
|
||||
local governance according to those unpopular ethical stances.
|
||||
|
||||
Can you bring yourself to imagine—concretely and in detail—these conditions
|
||||
occurring in the leadership of a global corporation?
|
||||
|
||||
And again, achieving a mode of governance that can appropriately handle those
|
||||
most obvious elements—the hate speech, the network abuse, the inauthentic
|
||||
behavior, all of it—is necessary but not sufficient for reaching something like
|
||||
a healthy equilibrium. The elements of big social platforms that make them
|
||||
attractive and fun and profitable are the same elements that, as currently
|
||||
implemented, turn low-level human behavior patterns around status, belief,
|
||||
conformity, and predation into a high-speed mass-scale mess of fractured
|
||||
publics and realities.
|
||||
|
||||
Two points of clarification: First, I’m not saying “Can’t fix people problems
|
||||
with technology,” which is exactly as true and useful as “Guns don’t kill
|
||||
people, people kill people.” (I used the former in what I thought was a very
|
||||
obviously sarcastic way, but apparently the intent was insufficiently clear.)
|
||||
If a technological system makes human problems worse, you have to fix the
|
||||
system or break it and build a better one.
|
||||
|
||||
Second, none of what I’m trying to get at here is about the intent of people
|
||||
who work on big platforms. Corporate platform trust and safety staff routinely
|
||||
work themselves to the brink of individual illness or collapse to handle what
|
||||
they’re permitted and resourced to handle—which is itself a tiny fraction of
|
||||
what would be necessary to handle to make platforms good. Corporate platform
|
||||
governance by technology companies whose success requires growth and
|
||||
attention-extraction, though, is a bankrupt idea.
|
||||
|
||||
If we briefly isolate the reality of our technological present, it’s hard to
|
||||
find it anything but absurd to expect a corporation to govern global or even
|
||||
local speech for any humanist value of “well.” And no one chose it, exactly, it
|
||||
just happened when the fantasies of the internet as an Apollonian zone of
|
||||
libertarian splendor met the reality of globally connected primate brains under
|
||||
late capitalism. I explicitly blame the connected-computer dream of
|
||||
technologically mediated liberation as cartoonishly exemplified in [25]JP
|
||||
Barlow’s Declaration, which centered on keeping the bad old world of human
|
||||
governance, which it equated with censorship, out of the internet:
|
||||
|
||||
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this
|
||||
claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't
|
||||
exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will
|
||||
identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social
|
||||
Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our
|
||||
world, not yours. Our world is different.
|
||||
|
||||
The governance arose, all right, once the money got real.
|
||||
|
||||
The computer dream’s rapidly evaporating and over-salinated shallows are still
|
||||
keeping the tech industry’s dumbest boats afloat, but the platforms have been
|
||||
scraping bottom for years while their owners slap on layers and layers of
|
||||
patches and bilge-pumps and bucket brigades manned by people from former
|
||||
colonies. The problem isn't (just) turning fact-checking on or off or
|
||||
deactivating a swarm of halfassed AI classifers or ceasing to pretend to act on
|
||||
most reports of misconduct, it's bad shape.
|
||||
|
||||
All of which is to say that yes, Zuckerberg is a terrible chump and Musk is a
|
||||
grotesque quasi-Rasputin, and that does matter, but the boards they stand on
|
||||
have been rotten the whole time. Centralized corporate governance of global
|
||||
mega-platforms was always a goofy idea, and we should have given up on it years
|
||||
ago.
|
||||
|
||||
This is where I get into awkward situations with lovely people, including
|
||||
several I count as friends, because they’re determined "not to let platforms
|
||||
off the hook.” I feel this, deeply, along with things like send the Sacklers to
|
||||
the guillotine. But keeping the fucked-up mutant fish on the hook will not
|
||||
magically transform it into an entity capable of governing.
|
||||
|
||||
—
|
||||
|
||||
Earlier this week at Platformer, [26]Casey Newton reported some insider views
|
||||
on what Meta’s most recent roll-back of content moderation and fact-checking
|
||||
means. The post is worth reading, and after the Myanmar research I did in 2023,
|
||||
and for what it’s worth, I don’t think Casey’s sources overstate the dangers
|
||||
inherent in what Meta’s doing: more real human beings are going to suffer and
|
||||
lose children and be killed because of this. But I want to look at something in
|
||||
the cursory background section of the newsletter, about the work that Meta put
|
||||
in after 2016, when Facebook got criticized for hosting election-interference
|
||||
ops in the US:
|
||||
|
||||
Chastened by the criticism, Meta set out to shore up its defenses. It hired
|
||||
40,000 content moderators around the world, invested heavily in building
|
||||
new technology to analyze content for potential harms and flag it for
|
||||
review, and became the world’s leading funder of third-party fact-checking
|
||||
organizations. It spent $280 million to create an independent Oversight
|
||||
Board to adjudicate the most difficult questions about online speech. It
|
||||
disrupted dozens of networks of state-sponsored trolls who sought to use
|
||||
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to spread propaganda and attack
|
||||
dissenters.
|
||||
|
||||
[27]According to Financial Times reporting ([28]archive link), Meta currently
|
||||
employs or has contracted with about 40,000 people to work on “safety and
|
||||
security,” of which just 15,000 are content moderators, for a user base of
|
||||
roughly four billion users, which works out to more than a quarter of a million
|
||||
users per moderator. This chimes with [29]New York Times reporting ([30]archive
|
||||
link) suggesting that in 2021, Accenture was billing Facebook for about 5,800
|
||||
full-time contract moderators. (For what it’s worth, in 2017, Meta promised to
|
||||
add all of [31]3,000 trust and safety staff.) Nor are Meta’s moderation
|
||||
resources allocated evenly: About 90% of Facebook users are outside the US and
|
||||
Canada; that overwhelming majority gets [32]approximately 13% of the company’s
|
||||
moderation time ([33]archive link).
|
||||
|
||||
And while we’re here, in 2020—the year Oversight Board started hiring—Meta
|
||||
cleared about $91 billion in profit. The Oversight Board trust got $280 million
|
||||
from Meta, or just over 0.3% of the company’s annual profits. The Oversight
|
||||
Board itself, though inclined to deliver thoughtful if glacially slow
|
||||
recommendations, appears to have accomplished [34]remarkably little.
|
||||
|
||||
Again: The work tens of thousands of people around the world put in to try to
|
||||
make platforms less terrible is real and essential work, and it’s often done at
|
||||
a terrible cost. It’s also the barest gesture at serious governance, and much
|
||||
of it is pure Potemkin Village.
|
||||
|
||||
That’s only a couple of things pulled from one paragraph that happened to hit
|
||||
my inbox while I was drafting this post, but I did [35]a whole lot of that kind
|
||||
of close reading in 2023, and came out believing that platform intensifications
|
||||
of governance in response to periodic governmental pressure are best understood
|
||||
as a little bit of real (though deeply inadequate) change and a whole lot of
|
||||
[36]flopping. Then, when the pressure comes off, the platforms re-orient like
|
||||
compass needles tossed into in an MRI machine.
|
||||
|
||||
—
|
||||
|
||||
[37]Barlow’s Declaration—which is excruciating and which I’ve been making
|
||||
myself reread annually for years as penance for participating in tech
|
||||
culture—ends like this:
|
||||
|
||||
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more
|
||||
humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
|
||||
|
||||
What we got instead was a handful of global-scale company towns that continue
|
||||
to prove their comprehensive unfitness to govern and their absolute
|
||||
vulnerability to the offline governments the free internet was meant to work
|
||||
around.
|
||||
|
||||
So sure: [38]Protocols over platforms. Then we have to actually do the
|
||||
inelegant, un-heroic, expensive work of rebuilding the essential structures of
|
||||
human civilization on top of the protocols, because it turns out we just have
|
||||
the one world, online or off, no way out.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
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Notes
|
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|
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* Renée’s book is very good and I recommend it for its lucid explanations and
|
||||
commitment to drawing on previous eras of mass communication without doing too
|
||||
deeply into either theoretical or historical rabbitholes (which I love, but
|
||||
which don’t make for popular reading). I don’t 100% agree with her conclusions,
|
||||
but they’re clearly stated and cleanly argued, which allows for productive
|
||||
disagreement—and I value that more than full alignment.
|
||||
|
||||
A common response to the things I've been posting is "Okay, but what will work,
|
||||
then?" I think there are hints at answers in the very chunky [40]fediverse
|
||||
governance research I worked on last year, in online and offline cooperatives,
|
||||
in [41]Rudy Fraser's Blacksky, and in the kinds of projects Nathan Schneider
|
||||
assesses in [42]Governable Spaces. I'll continue to explore what I think might
|
||||
be good shapes for governance here in ways that—I hope—will be more pragmatic
|
||||
than quixotic.
|
||||
|
||||
The featured diagram for this post is International Marine Engineering's 1912
|
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depiction of the profile and deck of the Titanic ([43]v. 17, p. 199).
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[11] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html
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[12] https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup
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[13] https://www.wired.com/story/shou-zi-chew-tik-tok-big-interview/
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[14] https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/naztok-an-organized-neo-nazi-tiktok-network-is-getting-millions-of-views/
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[15] https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/HateScape_v5.pdf
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[16] https://www.ft.com/content/d5549d48-8f02-464c-9c7d-17404a5b6d02
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[17] https://archive.ph/tvn8K
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[18] https://newrepublic.com/article/186928/misinformation-new-normal-disaster-response
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[19] https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
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[20] https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/renee-diresta/invisible-rulers/9781541703377/
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[21] https://www.newsweek.com/tech-ceos-donations-donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurations-compared-2010457
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[22] https://qz.com/google-youtube-trump-inauguration-meta-amazon-apple-1851736124
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[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution
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[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism
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[25] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
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[26] https://www.platformer.news/meta-fact-checking-free-speech-surrender/?ref=platformer-newsletter
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[27] https://www.ft.com/content/afeb56f2-9ba5-4103-890d-91291aea4caa
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[28] https://archive.ph/UxgFy
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[29] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/technology/facebook-accenture-content-moderation.html
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[30] https://archive.ph/SEZpr
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[31] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/technology/facebook-moderators-q1-earnings.html
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[32] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953
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[33] https://archive.ph/https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953
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[34] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/meta-s-oversight-board-and-the-need-for-a-new-theory-of-online-speech
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[35] https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iii-the-inside-view
|
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[36] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8kf3UIpN0
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[37] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
|
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[38] https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
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[39] https://www.wrecka.ge/#/portal
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[40] https://fediverse-governance.github.io/
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[41] https://www.wired.com/story/blacksky-is-nothing-like-black-twitter/
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[42] https://www.ucpress.edu/books/governable-spaces/epub-pdf
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[43] https://archive.org/details/internationalma171912newy/page/198/mode/2up
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[44] https://tootpick.org/#text=%22Bad%20shape%22%20https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
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