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Book Recap: Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death

"Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us; Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." Television has destroyed shared context and turned everything into entertainment.

Book Recap: Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death

On The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Messaging Apps In Getting Me To Do Things

WhatsApp’s to-do list functionality is very janky, in that it doesn’t exist, and sending messages to someone saying “I will do X today” and then replying to those messages saying “I have done X today” is a weird and inefficient way to keep track of your activities. But it works.

On The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Messaging Apps In Getting Me To Do Things

Umami Exists and MSG is its Messenger

For a long time, I thought MSG was a food additive more like "Red 40", that it had some obscure food-science use and junk food companies were either too lazy or callous to replace it. It turns out it's more like salt. Good luck taking that out of your Cheetos.

Umami Exists and MSG is its Messenger