Category: Reads

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Protein | The Pre-Viral Economy

Katie Deighton | Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’

Dazed | Has Substack entered its slop era?

SoulMates | It’s Easier To Hate Than Love

Matthew Statoff | Social signals 2025

Steven Levy | Alex Karp Goes to War

Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick | 🥀 rip brand social (2010 – 2025)

Patrick Kho | Subculture Never Died; You Just Stopped Looking For It

Patrick Kho | The Rise of the Traveling Third Space

Human Miracle I Don’t Want My Life to Be an Act of Letting Go

William Gibson, Pattern Recognition novel, 2003: PDF LINK

Letty Cole | The Detail Deficit

Sean Monahan | is new media a term we should still be using?

Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use

Sean Monahan | a is for anthropic

Chante Joseph | Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

Ruby Thelot | New Love Languages

Sachin | Prophetic Soft Technologies

Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies, 2025

Sean Monahan | the vibes shift or post-social media

Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

Ana Andjelic | TREND BIPOLARITY: AFTER THE TREND CYCLE

Molly Barth | How hardship became aspirational

NEMESIS | BRAND ANALYSIS: H IS FOR HARVEY

Alexi Gunner | idle gaze 074: in praise of gateopeners

Kate Knibbs | Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

How to be online without being consumed by it

Sean Monahan | are you unc?

Kyle Chayka | Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?

Eugene Healey | Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death