Weekend reading/listening/watching

First, two essays on memory dropped on the same day! - one from @simondlr 

"we’re sometimes supposed to forget things"

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Weekend reading/listening/watching

First, two essays on memory dropped on the same day! - one from @simondlr 

"we’re sometimes supposed to forget things"

https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-memories-hoarder-pruner-deleter

Second, also on memory, also dropped today, this tour de force from @fakepixels 

"What would your past self say to you? And what would you say in return?"

Third, and also related, this essay from the New Yorker, which challenges the idea that there is a digital attention crisis (I love challenging orthodoxy)

"Ours is an era of obsession as much as distraction, of long forms as much as short ones, of zeal as much as indifference. To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis"

Third, and also related, this essay from the New Yorker, which challenges the idea that there is a digital attention crisis (I love challenging orthodoxy)

"Ours is an era of obsession as much as distraction, of long forms as much as short ones, of zeal as much as indifference. To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/27/the-sirens-call-chris-hayes-book-review

And finally, the wonderfully charismatic RZA sharing his musical knowledge and obsessions

"Billy Joel's lyrics are to me on the level of Leonard Cohen"

And finally, the wonderfully charismatic RZA sharing his musical knowledge and obsessions

"Billy Joel's lyrics are to me on the level of Leonard Cohen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIS7ASJU9CI

Second, also on memory, also dropped today, this tour de force from @fakepixels 

"What would your past self say to you? And what would you say in return?"

https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-timetravels