Our minds emulate the technologies we're exposed to.

Guests

Darin Stevenson. intelligence artist, linguistics researcher.

Sections

00:19 intro
04:12 instantaneous in the 1980s
07:42 am I scrolling?
10:56 don't scroll away
14:17 offering something better
20:09 posting atrocities
31:22 nourishing content
36:19 Twitter person, Instagram person
47:03 simple language
54:04 roadblocks to new ideas
56:03 beautiful baroque music
57:50 conclusion

If you enjoyed that, you might like my exchange

• with Alex Kennedy, who I spoke with about being online versus offline;
• or with Lars Schmidt, who deeply considers our connection with language, technology, and nature;
• or with Jo Vávra, who's projects explore ways of collective intelligence and living.

(P.S. I'm leaning more and more towards giving things away so you'll notice this is publicly available to everyone. If you would still like to contribute financially, there's now an option here to do one-time 'tips' of any amount)