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-- Deep Questions podcast 295 with Cal Newport

I’m a fan of Cal Newport and the content he creates. It’s mostly about how to keep your (digital) distractions under control by using different deep-work methods. It’s basicly a way of living by making your day a good day.

Here is the link to view the podcast: https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=KcQMt9HabqA which caught my attention recently. The part I would like to highlight is discussed in the first 32 minutes.

In this episode Cal takes a closer look at a growing trend of artists quitting social media and instead reverting to old fashioned websites. Are these acts of principled sacrifice or a sustainable way to be creative online? Cal argues for the latter, showing how the internet without social media curation algorithms can be a place of rich discovery and audience building. He then takes questions on similar topics and ends by playing a few rounds of “deep or crazy” during the final segment.

Here are the mentioned videos which are part of this revolt:

Let me try to summarize some important parts of Cal his analysis.

What are the main reasons why artists are stopping with social media?

Social media is controlling and reducing the quality of their art
The algorithms are rewarding sameness and not uniqueness
Social media is making them unhappy
They didn’t get into social media for social validation

Cal dives shortly into the history of the internet and the discoverability challenges / problems with the web (networks of networks of networks). He also mentions the value of serendipity discovery mechanisms.

👀 At 16m45s Cal is discussing and drawing the concept of a distributed trust model, this is where the nostreness kicks in!

Wait, what, Nostr?
Click here to find out on my blog: Why Nostr Resonates

This is the clip worth checking out from 22m28s till 23m22s of the podcast:

View it: https://shares.sebastix.dev/mYIzuTLC.mp4

Link to the full episode and shownotes: https://www.thedeeplife.com/podcasts/episodes/ep-295-artists-revolt-against-social-media/

What else got my attention?

The Internet is starting to break - here's why - link
How Twitter's descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web - link
We're slaves of companies like Google and Microsoft (Dutch) - link
Optionality - link
Feds orderded Google to unmask certain YouTube users - link
#KijkTip Louis Theroux interviews Chelsea Manning (Dutch) - link
Nice article about the bitcoin halving in het NRC (Dutch) - link
iDEAL is introducing user accounts for safer payments (Dutch) - link
The State of the Culture 2024: the rise of the dopamine culture - link
Corporate Open Source is Dead - link
#KijkTip Total Trust at 2DOC (Dutch) - link & link

👋 ...my next mailing will be filled with Nostr stuff!