Here are unfinished ideas that fall out of my brain.

mind doodles.md

Mind Doodles

• Going viral is now just another inconvenience in life, like when your apartment floods or your power goes out. You may have "caused" it by posting/not sealing your door or blowing a fuse, but it's mostly out of your control.

• As the moral panic around how Zoomers work/communicate continues, we've lost an important thread: their digital lives are largely happening behind closed digital doors. Companies may still own all of their data, but it's not necessarily public to everyone on the platform. This has largely shaped how Snapchat has evolved: users are much more interested in one on one communication and filters instead of a feed that they have no agency over.

• Is a wiki that different from a metaverse? What about co-op text based games? What if you have your own world? I think of Obsidian as my own little internet grove.

• iCloud is already Apple's social network. They might not be able to cultivate social media, but the blue bubble holding text still subtly indicates you're in the Apple ecosystem in some way or another.

• Remember Facebook buttons and pokes or whatever? They had their own robust community and world building that helped them overtake myspace. They took it away for a non-linear timeline and newsfeed.

• An algorithm based feed in a metaverse is a fake reality.

• It's highly unlikely AR/VR will teach us empathy. It won't strip away biases. But I have to hope that it will help us feel less alone.

• I've been obsessed with phone cases since the very first iPhone I got in high in school. At first it was because I didn't want to break a remarkably expensive thing my parents helped pay for. Now I think it's my way of reminding myself that my phone is just another object. A case is a connection to the physical world. It reminds me I can and will drop it, it will be worn down and start to look old, and mostly that it's an object I have control over. There are many slabs of glass, but this one is mine.