part of the reason everyone has a million tabs open all the time is because browser bookmarks are legitimately an extremely awful way to save links. the underlying design metaphor hasn’t changed in, what, over two decades? it comes from a much smaller and simpler internet
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folders are completely the wrong structure. what you really want is to be able to throw a link into a service that will spit it back out at you *when it becomes relevant*, and/or *when you’re in the mood to read it*. folders don’t capture context- and mood-dependence
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i’ve started thinking about “context- and mood-dependence” using the word “tuning,” so far only in conversations with - the original motivation was wanting to “tune” twitter to specific moods and contexts but i increasingly realized i want tuning *everywhere*
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i want to tune spotify to specific moods and contexts, i want to tune youtube to specific moods and contexts, etc. etc. etc. i think a decade ago we weren’t good enough at ML to do stuff like this but surely we must be by now?
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working on this rn with spotify and ml, research in associating mood with musical features in data science started a decade ago what was missing then was the widespread adoption of streaming services
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suspect that the reason it hasn't happened already is the ability to resolve and control context as a user undermines viral content promotion.
you can't hookworm me into a content stream designed to legibilize my behaviour until i want to buy x if i'm not feeling that vibe rn
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oof :/ big principal-agent problem feels right there