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The graveyard of data at our fingertips is not really memory as we’ve known it, and it’s not really history — it’s something new and chaotic, something eerily trans-human. The internet is like a time machine that’s bringing back the ghosts of our ancestors. (For the skeptics out there: think of a ghost as the remnants of information patterns that were once produced by a living person). And these ghosts have a lot of unfinished business (bones to pick, allies to avenge, scores to settle) that make it hard to move forward.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit [13.2](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.chartr.co%2Fnewsletters%2F2023-11-27%3Futm_source=DenseDiscovery-267/1/0100018c36c7b4b8-d42ccb76-2e4e-4662-aaec-b5a6b60a9bcf-000000/PByM6uuwqqeT_oZuGTOP6fEBDvcA2AFEwX2lkHdOoIU=329) million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak.
267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance
Dense Discovery
Americans say they prize competition, a proliferation of choices, the little guy. Yet our taste for convenience begets more convenience, through a combination of the economics of scale and the power of habit. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus the easier it becomes to use Amazon. Convenience and monopoly seem to be natural bedfellows.
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