Engaged Reading Time - Issue #63

Oh, God, this is a brilliant read. This is a read that’s so good that it makes me want to hang up my keyboard and never, ever write about the internet again, because nothing I ever write will be as good as this.

It’s both deeply insightful about the nature of discourse on the net, and hugely entertaining, even as it unsettles you. Superb stuff.

We all suspected this, didn’t we? Well, now it’s science.

OK Boomer. Whatevs Millennials. We, the slacker generation, built the internet you know, and we’ve had enough of what you’re doing on it.

You’re going to click this link. Just admit it to yourself, and move on. I won’t tell anyone.

Just when you thought influencer culture couldn’t get any more strange, this guy tries to uncancel himself by becoming someone else…

This is probably the most depressing thing I’ve ever linked in this newsletter, but it perfectly sums up a lot of what I’ve been through over the past few years. Many of you will know exactly what I am talking about. And some of you have all this left to come…

A hymn of praise to the simple joys of hunting hagstones on the beach. (And, yes, it’s written by me. I’ve been longing to stretch my writing and photography muscles in different directions for months. I hope to do more like this.)

I’m generally not a fan of the “aggregation of stuff from the internet” genre. But this is really very funny. And a bit sinister. But mainly funny.

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you smart people this. But it’s a useful bookmark to have for when you encounter those other people in online debates…

A fascinating story of how a Big New Tech failed utterly. I wonder if we’ll be reading piece like this about VR in a decade?

Because then you’ll understand why I included this link… 😈