Scroll any feed on any given week and something becomes immediately visible. Not variety, not the infinite diversity platforms promise, but convergence. One week, every second video is a Bruce Lee AI recreation. The week before, thousands of creators narrating the...
Creators entering social media are almost universally given the same advice: post consistently and post frequently. The instruction applies equally to beginners and to those with established audiences. It circulates as received wisdom — the settled conclusion of...
Output as the Most Decipherable Signal Unreachability once required no explanation. Communication was bounded by place and device; being offline was a default condition, not a signal. Messages accumulated quietly until one returned to them. Work ended with physical...
The Human Need for Closure Human cognition is biased toward closure. The brain resists ambiguity and seeks completed narratives because, historically, certainty reduced risk. Knowing whether a threat had passed, whether an action was finished, or whether a situation...
What often begins as intentional consumption—watching a single video during dinner or scrolling briefly before sleep—frequently escalates into extended, unplanned viewing. Meals end while attention remains occupied. Nights stretch later than intended. What was framed...
