{"id":132,"date":"2018-06-13T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:17:57","slug":"inner-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/13\/inner-newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this concept for a while. Discussed it with a couple of online friends:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just think of your own mind as a newsfeed that disappears once you come in contact with any other newsfeed (twitter, fb, etc). Curiosities, idle musings, random connections and syntheses between existing thoughts, ideas, perspectives<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/952888939580280833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I saw a quote in my 2013 article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@visakanv\/the-hard-part-about-thought-leadership-is-the-thought-bit-f720a28d4d9e\">We rarely love people,<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"2787\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote\">If we can spend time scrolling through Facebook and Tumblr, surely we can spend time in silence, scrolling through our own minds.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e0ce\" class=\"graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">\u201cHello,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>have you asked yourself lately,\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">\u201cAre you there?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this concept for a while. Discussed it with a couple of online friends: Just think of your own mind as a newsfeed that disappears once you come in contact with any other newsfeed (twitter, fb, etc). Curiosities, idle musings, random connections and syntheses between existing thoughts,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-28","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}