For starters, I am not a psychologist (though I work down the hall from one). I think of solutions in terms of building tech products. However, it occurs to me that so many of the implications of FOMO are about the framing–the context in which you get your social fix. Call me a geek and a Bing partisan (both true), but a handy by-product of integrating search with all this social data is the ability to put it in healthy context. Perhaps even a context healthier than just the social inputs alone. … [Read more...] about Conquer Your Fear Of Missing Out By Focusing On The Present
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33 moments of unintentional comedy that brightened up 2020 (kind of)
26. Emily Ratajkowksi shuts down a cancel culture critic Back in July, while the country was grappling with the pandemic, mass social unrest, and election madness, many people online still found time to flip out about the greatest threat facing America: cancel culture. A writer named Thomas Chatterton Williams put together an open letter rebuking the concept itself, got a lot of famous writers to sign on, and published it in Harper’s. Months later, the letter’s author got, well, not canceled, but heavily roasted. … [Read more...] about 33 moments of unintentional comedy that brightened up 2020 (kind of)