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Tumblr has all the infrastructure to be the new Twitter. Surprised there hasn't been more discussion of that in the media.

Great article.

In this environment, curating services like https://thinking-about-things.com/ or https://essays.findka.com/ are becoming increasingly valuable.

http://readsomethinginteresting.com/ is also great.

This brings to mind Compass Rose's piece Shabbat Hard or Go Home. http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/

Pipe all the sites you find yourself getting distracted on into /etc/hosts and redirect them to 127.0.0.1.

I've been using Hover for years and have never had any problems.

The About page of Read Something Interesting ( https://readsomethinginteresting.com/about ) conveys this well.

Wish there was something like Read Something Interesting ( http://readsomethinginteresting.com/ ) but with a search index, where you could search only the blogosphere.

The hard part is finding the interesting websites - there is such a firehose of content that we've necessitated a separate role for content curators. I get Thinking About Things, w…

This is fantastic, please keep up the series. I've been enjoying it immensely. Previously: * Interview with Seneca ( https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short ) * Interview with Marc…

The best way I've found of discovering new blogs is Thinking About Things ( https://www.thinking-about-things.com ). I was introduced to it recently and it's introduced me to great…

One thing I've noticed: US-based commenters are much more negative and cynical than anyone else. I've made posts (under a previous username) when the US folks were asleep and got g…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/

I worked for a well-known "flat" company, and it was awful. There is a point to hierarchy. There is great value to knowing who is more knowledgable and experienced, and who isn't e…