Rachel Gardner

on the atlas — 8

• Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User - The Atlantic1 savers
• Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED2 savers
• IndieWeb6 savers
• The internet is flat. - Galaxy Brain1 savers
• The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command | WIRED1 savers
• Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker1 savers
• Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms1 savers
• Sunshine1 savers

highlights — 9

• Staring down the barrel of Keynes’s 2030 target for the arrival of universal leisure, economists have often considered why Keynes seems to have been so wrong. The inflation of relative needs is one explanation—the arms race for better and more stuff and status. The ever-increasing wealth gap, on the rise since the anti-Keynes, supply-side 1980s is another. But what if Keynes was right, too, in a way. Even if productivity has increased mostly to the benefit of the wealthy, hasn’t everyone gained enormous leisure, but by replacing recreation with work rather than work with recreation? This new w…

  Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User - The Atlantic

• But a to-do list is, ultimately, nothing more or less than an attempt to persuade yourself.

  Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

• The inconvenience can be clarifying. Making a list on a sheet of paper is an unusually rich metaphor for life: It takes effort, and the space fills up more quickly than you expect.

  Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

• Every to-do list is, ultimately, about death. (“Dost thou love life?” wrote Ben Franklin. “Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”)

  Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

• To-do lists are, in the American imagination, a curiously moral type of software. Nobody opens Google Docs or PowerPoint thinking “This will make me a better person.” But with to-do apps, that ambition is front and center. “Everyone thinks that, with this system,

  Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

• By one estimate, work hours for those with college degrees went up about 7 percent between 1980 and 2016. Got a graduate degree? For you it went up more than 9 percent. And quite apart from one’s paid toil, there’s been an increase in social work—all the messaging and posts and social media garden-tending that the philosopher and technologist Ian Bogost calls “hyperemployment.”

  Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED

• I’ve been thinking about a different internet flattening, namely the way that social platforms collapse time and space and context into one big pancake of conflict. I wrote a bit about this phenomenon in my inaugural post for this newsletter. It’s called context collapse, which is when a piece of information intended for one audience finds its way to another — usually an uncharitable one — which then reads said information in the worst possible faith.

  The internet is flat. - Galaxy Brain

• Who you were a year ago, or five years ago, or decades ago, is flattened into who you are now. Time has collapsed and everything is in the present because it takes microseconds to pull it up online. There is little appreciation for context or personal evolution.”

  The internet is flat. - Galaxy Brain

• Clubhouse is by no means the first platform that enables cults. It is just the best platform to date—and the most explicit about its purpose.

  Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms