I'm reminded of Neil Postman's point in Amusing Ourselves to Death - modern communications technology (starting with the telegraph) introduced decontextualized information, where news became increasingly disconnected from any specific action that individuals could take. It makes sense in this context that news that is more likely to be professionally relevant is in the "thinking" category (as that is news that has to be primarily connected to individual actioning), while decontextualized news has to make itself relevant by appealing to feeling
I absolutely love your writing style and thought process! It's a real inspiration.
For this rubric: Have you ever listened to 99 Percent Invisible podcast about design? It would be interesting to see where you would rank their content from feeling vs thought (although this depends massively on which episode you are ranking). They seem to me like they are often a great example of content that should be firmly in the feeling bucket, but oftentimes ends up more towards the center. It'd be interesting to see how you break out this type of content.
I recently shifted to the Reverse Chrono Twitter feed myself and it's completely changed the way I consume Twitter. I also heavily curtailed the people I follow, and it's had wonderous effects. An experiment where I classify the things I read over the next week on this axis sounds like it could be an interesting one.
The anti-trust committee report has 400+ pages in it and that's a bit of a stretch for anyone who's job role doesn't include defending those 4 companies in the court. So, by default, all of us will fall on the 'feeling' side of the news to learn more about this report. What say?
I'm reminded of Neil Postman's point in Amusing Ourselves to Death - modern communications technology (starting with the telegraph) introduced decontextualized information, where news became increasingly disconnected from any specific action that individuals could take. It makes sense in this context that news that is more likely to be professionally relevant is in the "thinking" category (as that is news that has to be primarily connected to individual actioning), while decontextualized news has to make itself relevant by appealing to feeling
I absolutely love your writing style and thought process! It's a real inspiration.
For this rubric: Have you ever listened to 99 Percent Invisible podcast about design? It would be interesting to see where you would rank their content from feeling vs thought (although this depends massively on which episode you are ranking). They seem to me like they are often a great example of content that should be firmly in the feeling bucket, but oftentimes ends up more towards the center. It'd be interesting to see how you break out this type of content.
I recently shifted to the Reverse Chrono Twitter feed myself and it's completely changed the way I consume Twitter. I also heavily curtailed the people I follow, and it's had wonderous effects. An experiment where I classify the things I read over the next week on this axis sounds like it could be an interesting one.
The anti-trust committee report has 400+ pages in it and that's a bit of a stretch for anyone who's job role doesn't include defending those 4 companies in the court. So, by default, all of us will fall on the 'feeling' side of the news to learn more about this report. What say?