Is there some way that the Kindle user interface could give me the same sense of urgency and being alive that Twitter does? Asking for a friend.
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This is a fun prompt—to lean into the fray of urgent, "hot" media; to make reading "compete" with Fortnite. Framed that way, I wonder about the inverse: "cooling" my relationship to Twitter so that timeless books naturally outcompete. i.e. Where should "home field advantage" be?
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i.e. imagine that on my coffee table, there is:
– a few books
– a stack of papers
– a bound volume of 500 algorithmically-selected tweets from the last week
This is a very different type of interaction!
what did attention allocation to this "junk content" look like pre internet/TV? I've never read a national newspaper from cover to cover, what's the "playthrough time" of all the news that's fit to print?
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The problem, of course, is that if we treated Twitter like newsprint, we wouldn’t be having this very conversation.
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