In the end, the designers found that clever font selection, coupled with a thoughtful layout design that reduced white space, resulted in more words per page. For instance, in one example, the same text set to Garamond Pro resulted in many more words on the page compared to Bembo. Both fonts are fairly similar, with a classic serif look. And when you place them side by side, the differences are imperceptible. “The goal is to make these changes without the reader even seeing the difference,” says Menzies.

HarperCollins made a tiny tweak to its book design—and has saved thousands of trees as a result

If you want an answer, you have to ask a question. People typically have a lot to say, but they’ll volunteer little. Automatic questions on a regular schedule help people practice sharing, writing, and communicating.

The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity.

Oxymoronic! :D

Before: Getting influenced by influencers

After: Getting influenced by de-influencers

There is no need to follow every -trendy-shiny-new-things that lead to over-consumption.

Chasing scale will always be a part of the human experience. So the best advice I give myself and anyone else will listen is to stay grounded in your pursuit. Don’t abandon the myriad interests and opportunities that come your way just because they can’t scale. Don’t defer them for “later,” for your soft retirement plan.

Hedonic Treadmill: Expectations rise with results, so nothing feels as good as you’d imagine for as long as you’d expect.

Positive Illusions: Excessively rosy views about the decisions you’ve made to maintain self-esteem in a world where everyone makes bad decisions all the time.

I’m not the only person concerned about this. That’s why there’s a crisis of trust in society—and it’s not just impacting writers. Social media has turned everybody into strutting and preening pretenders.

There is no greater mantra worth sharing on the internet. The moment you learn the downside of comparison, you’ll lead a (more) meaningful life. People on social media sell all sorts of snake oil in the name of ambition. Well, there are limits to your limits too. You are meant to achieve some things and you are meant to lose a lot of things. Those are the laws of the universe. Just because A has more than B doesn’t make A content. But who is going to tell this to B if he remains stuck in inside his head?

The road ahead looks bumpy from where I sit. And when the business community wakes up and realizes that replacing people with shitty technology doesn’t show up as a positive on the financials after you factor in the consequences of customer rage, that’s when the hot air gushes out of the bubble.

“Rejecting that flashy life is giving me more time to concentrate and be the person I need to be,” he says. “I want (life) to be simple and work as hard as I can rather than living at a high level, driving flashy cars or airplanes. I think that can make you come down as far as performance.”

I’m not a pollyanna about the fact that there are still going to be lots of horrible things on the internet, and that too many of the tycoons who rule the tech industry are trying to make the bad things worse. (After all, look what the last wild era online lead to.) There’s not going to be some new killer app that displaces Google or Facebook or Twitter with a love-powered alternative. But that’s because there shouldn’t be. There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.

I mostly use Matter for Send to Kindle feature. Thinking to move newsletters subscriptions from stoop inbox to Matter.

Perhaps for most of the people tweeting highlights or opinion about articles matters more than veracity of the articles and don’t care whether it’s completely read or not. Some people might react to tweets or just ignore it but it’s still part of hubris or virtue-signalling which lead to tweet about it.

Don’t know whether writers are concerned about sharing/commenting about it without actually reading it. I think still publishers-writers revenue model is about number of views-share-comments. They really don’t care whether you have actually read it or not. They just want engagements with their content at any cost.

Nowadays, some of the quality contents is behind the paywall, some people aren’t considering to pay for it because it’s often bundle of content which contains less quality contents but just because companies are having subscription model they need to serve contents where quantity matters more than quality.