media-sense

attention metrics

I usually bring up this thread/idea when talking with people about things like optimizing for views or follower counts. The th

It’s amazing that any of us are able to understand each other at all. Communication is lossy. (“Lossy” is a

This page is a collection of instances of the phrase “memed into existence”. I’m collecting them out of nerd

This has been a recurring thing for me. There are lots of ways to rephrase this, reframe this. Coming up with the idea for a s

I think about iconography a lot, I have multiple twitter threads about them. I’ll eventually expand this into a blogpost

A loose set of notes about aesthetics. What are aesthetics? Why don’t you just say beautiful, or pretty? Why use this

The following is a set of notes for an essay I want to write. ✱ A common feature in fantasy fiction is powerful magical obje

Do you have a single document that links to every single thing that’s important to you on the web? Why not? ✱ From tim

(2023sep25) Was just talking with @neuranne about creativity and ideas and I found myself naturally bringing up the idea of pa

John Locke: “Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perve

(I’m thinking about this mainly in the context of Twitter, but there are some general principles here too.) I don’

twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt Twitter is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia

I was going through my photos and I wanted to keep track of all the people I met. Unfortunately sometimes I met someone and di

In the old days, people used to have lists of links on their blogs to other blogs that they liked reading. Here’s mine.

(There’s quite a bit of preamble in this post before I get to the answer – just scroll down past the hot dogs if you&#