2022-04-12
- Anki review thoughts
- Are the Strokes just basically the Ramones if they did a bunch of Ketamine?
- Zara Larsson reminds me of Ariana Grande, especially on “WOW”
- This is Internet culture. It is not culture in the sense that it is something people do. It is culture in the sense that it is something we do with each other. Everything we put out contributes to an ongoing conversation. We are not individuals talking to ourselves. We are a people talking to each other. This is Internet culture.
- The medium is the message
- Feels like something I should internalize more fully, only slowly coming to grips with the power of this idea. Seems like one of those ideas that will become increasingly fundamental. Need some sort of kata to reinforce it.
- One thing that’s nice is that computers reinforce this idea nearly every time I use them. Computers are so flexible, they support the existence of many different media (/mediums), that you can more easily see the impact of the medium on the messages etc.
- One framing of life is that you are constantly choosing what medium to exist in. Your choice of medium(s) heavily influences the person you become. Kind of like that saying “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with,” a similar thing could be said about what kind of mediums you spend time in. Can maybe see the impact clearly by considering metaphors. The media/mediums you choose heavily influence the metaphors you use when thinking about the world.
- Important media (/mediums) in my life:
- Anki
- books
- friends
- my apartment
- the gym
- Twitter
- TV/movies
- Other media
- games
- netflix
- cable news
- corporate meetings
- email
- video chats
- snapchat
- instagram stories
- concerts
- house parties
- bars/restaurants/dinner table
- bathtubs
- etc
Date
April 12, 2022