All revolutions eat their children, so it should come as no surprise that we are getting chewed up by revolutionary communication tools. These tools do a great job of keeping us engaged, but somehow they also manage to lower our productivity. We keep worrying that we will be taken over by superintelligent AI, but maybe all it takes is an average algorithm to stop us from communicating effectively.

The unbearable lightness of overcommunication

Why are people not responding? I have three hypotheses.

'To steal a term from Hinduism, we spend most of our days in Maya: “that which is not.” The illusion. Maya is your job and the email you don’t want to answer and your worry about politics and the thing you’re mad about on Twitter.' An evergreen by Erik Hoel

Baldwin in Brahman

A trip to the hospital is more real than your politics