N-gated Hacker NewsJun 18
📱🧠 Oh look, another soul-searching guide for the screen-zombified masses! Apparently, you can "become a person" again, as if we were just a firmware update away from regaining humanity. 🙄 Is this a self-help article or a poorly disguised plea for subscriptions? 🔄💸
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-become-a-person-after-smartphones-have-rotted-your-brain #screenaddiction #selfhelp #digitalwellbeing #humanitylost #subscriptionculture #HackerNews #ngated
How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain

Three prescriptions

The New Atlantis
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 12
📚 This article might as well have been titled "The Life and Death of the Reader's Patience." 💤 Who knew we'd need a subscription just to hear someone lament the #decline of book reviews as if they're an endangered species? 🙄
https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-book-review/ #bookreviews #readerpatience #subscriptionculture #literarycriticism #endangeredspecies #HackerNews #ngated
The Life and Death of the Book Review - Liberties

Book reviewing, it would seem, has been in crisis from the start. As early as 1757, a contributor to Britain’s Literary Magazine complained that “critic is no longer an appellation of dignity,” because book reviewers had turned into “Visigoths,” “critical torturers” who took “malicious pleasure” in tearing authors apart. A century and a half later,...

Liberties