Yep!! After I sent this, I read a line from Charlie Warzel that I think sums the current state of play up pretty well: "At a moment dominated by attention seekers, on platforms that reward fast-twitch proclamations and bullshit, pausing to gather evidence is painted as suspicious behavior. Reckless opportunists have rebranded baseless speculation as virtuous truth-telling."
Thank you — this was a very informative piece about a trend that has been worrying me.
Since Musk took over Twitter, the app sends me constant push notifications of "Breaking News" from exactly this type of account. The contrast between the breaking news Twitter promotes to me and the breaking news notifications I get from e.g. the NYT, Reuters, AP, etc., is profound.
Ha! So the book is “Master of Change” by Brad Stulberg. It reads like my therapist met with those leadership coaches my company springs for and they then checked in with my wife. So lots of generally interesting insights in one place. But the central premise is that after big disordered life events, things don’t return back to “normal.” So what are the best ways to adapt and handle the change.
And I dunno you sound like you gave a pretty good answer to open a larger inquiry 😁
So I’m reading this book about change (large scale as well as how to handle change as an individual) because, um, end times. The book posits that we need to think of change as “order, disorder, reorder.” Traditionally, people think after disorder we return to order but we don’t.
So let’s say since 2016 we’ve been living in a massive disordered world, and it’s really accelerated the past couple of years, as Caitlin is pointing out. We’re not going back to the days or Morrow or even Brokaw. So what does the reordered world look like? Or is *this* the reordered world and we better get used to it?
"Reordered world" sounds like the title of a near-future dystopian novel I would absolutely read. What's the book, out of curiosity? (I can't claim to have any answers to your larger questions around the longer-term future of digital media, unfortunately... although I do think all these guys leach off traditional media, so it's hard to imagine there's a future for them without the outlets they aggregate from.)
Maybe legacy media is “far behind” because they fact check and don’t print shit. Thanks Musk for unleashing propaganda, lies and terror.
Yep!! After I sent this, I read a line from Charlie Warzel that I think sums the current state of play up pretty well: "At a moment dominated by attention seekers, on platforms that reward fast-twitch proclamations and bullshit, pausing to gather evidence is painted as suspicious behavior. Reckless opportunists have rebranded baseless speculation as virtuous truth-telling."
OK I see you with the namedrops in Taylor Lorenz's newsletter https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/the-pop-craveification-of-breaking
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Thank you — this was a very informative piece about a trend that has been worrying me.
Since Musk took over Twitter, the app sends me constant push notifications of "Breaking News" from exactly this type of account. The contrast between the breaking news Twitter promotes to me and the breaking news notifications I get from e.g. the NYT, Reuters, AP, etc., is profound.
Ha! So the book is “Master of Change” by Brad Stulberg. It reads like my therapist met with those leadership coaches my company springs for and they then checked in with my wife. So lots of generally interesting insights in one place. But the central premise is that after big disordered life events, things don’t return back to “normal.” So what are the best ways to adapt and handle the change.
And I dunno you sound like you gave a pretty good answer to open a larger inquiry 😁
So I’m reading this book about change (large scale as well as how to handle change as an individual) because, um, end times. The book posits that we need to think of change as “order, disorder, reorder.” Traditionally, people think after disorder we return to order but we don’t.
So let’s say since 2016 we’ve been living in a massive disordered world, and it’s really accelerated the past couple of years, as Caitlin is pointing out. We’re not going back to the days or Morrow or even Brokaw. So what does the reordered world look like? Or is *this* the reordered world and we better get used to it?
"Reordered world" sounds like the title of a near-future dystopian novel I would absolutely read. What's the book, out of curiosity? (I can't claim to have any answers to your larger questions around the longer-term future of digital media, unfortunately... although I do think all these guys leach off traditional media, so it's hard to imagine there's a future for them without the outlets they aggregate from.)