A Digital Garden

Tag: culture

  • It is Sunday

    This is possible, it would just take a higher standard for what spending your money and your time means. And by “you” and “your”, I mean me and mine.

  • Why ‘Cost Disease’ Is the Secret Force Behind America’s Toxic Solitude

    Interesting post on a fix to the “anti-social century” maybe being possible through social subsidies. Through the lens of Baumol’s cost disease. We’ve gotten more isolated because technological progress in social areas drives us to spend more time alone: Netflix is cheaper than a movie theatre, etc. etc. Would be interesting to see a small…

  • Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)

    Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…

  • Two thoughts about “the elites”

    Two things I’ve seen in the last hour on Twitter/X really illuminated for me how much “the elites” is front and center to the mess of the American culture right now. I’m also reading The Revolt of the Republic by Martin Gurri right now and have to come to see that it’s all about “the…

  • Are Cultural Products Getting Longer?

    The answer seems to be Yes. This is a great counterfactual to attention span narratives. It doesn’t speak to quality, but to attention span. Brain Rot seems to be a real thing (on the surface) but we don’t enjoy it. It seems like we’re immunizing by consuming longer content. I notice this with the kids.…