I was so friggin happy to see the solar oven story here as i know the woman who brings them into communities, shes been independently doing this grassroots for YEARS with very little outside assistance, i bought one from her from a local farmers market years ago to use for natural dying. They are wonderful and fun! Safe cooking for kids too. Anyways yeah for people doing good in this world and persevering. And thank you for shining light on the good :)
that's AMAZING!!!! hell yeah: happy to share! it's so amazing, reminding of some efforts in Africa to prevent wood / smoke-intensive cooking. a great example of easy, safe, good tech helping people!!!
The scariest thing about brands that try to act cool for me is how many people fell for it. At this point I prefer a faceless corporation like PG or Unilever who don't act as my friend or don't act funny, but simply make products - at least they're honest about our relationship - they make products, I buy them. I don't find them cool, but I don't need to.
The 2nd scariest thing is how much of internet at this point is branded - I probably consume only like, idk, 1% of content that is not branded. TikTok and IG are literal ad apps - you either consume branded organic or paid content, YT is the same 10 sponsors, so are podcasts. Maybe I should put a screen on my door and let ads run on it so I can have a piece of that cake.
to the second item: YES. exactly. these "social" spaces have become so anti-human that, paired with the ads of it all, theyre going to collapse because the non-human was prioritized. they killed something that was quite good! alas.
to the first part: something i said a lot to brands i've worked with is "why does the refrigerator need to talk? maybe the food in it or the pics on it needs to talk — but the fridge itself? no one cares." it's a classic trend now, that everyone jumped on the bandwagon speeding faster and faster to the point that we got a duolingo — and they really, really represent how such hubris or such a performance collapses/collapsed.
these two things combine to make...a deeply unfun digital world, not that it's been "fun" for much of the past five years. anyway. thank you for sharing!! really great stuff.
I was so friggin happy to see the solar oven story here as i know the woman who brings them into communities, shes been independently doing this grassroots for YEARS with very little outside assistance, i bought one from her from a local farmers market years ago to use for natural dying. They are wonderful and fun! Safe cooking for kids too. Anyways yeah for people doing good in this world and persevering. And thank you for shining light on the good :)
that's AMAZING!!!! hell yeah: happy to share! it's so amazing, reminding of some efforts in Africa to prevent wood / smoke-intensive cooking. a great example of easy, safe, good tech helping people!!!
The scariest thing about brands that try to act cool for me is how many people fell for it. At this point I prefer a faceless corporation like PG or Unilever who don't act as my friend or don't act funny, but simply make products - at least they're honest about our relationship - they make products, I buy them. I don't find them cool, but I don't need to.
The 2nd scariest thing is how much of internet at this point is branded - I probably consume only like, idk, 1% of content that is not branded. TikTok and IG are literal ad apps - you either consume branded organic or paid content, YT is the same 10 sponsors, so are podcasts. Maybe I should put a screen on my door and let ads run on it so I can have a piece of that cake.
to the second item: YES. exactly. these "social" spaces have become so anti-human that, paired with the ads of it all, theyre going to collapse because the non-human was prioritized. they killed something that was quite good! alas.
to the first part: something i said a lot to brands i've worked with is "why does the refrigerator need to talk? maybe the food in it or the pics on it needs to talk — but the fridge itself? no one cares." it's a classic trend now, that everyone jumped on the bandwagon speeding faster and faster to the point that we got a duolingo — and they really, really represent how such hubris or such a performance collapses/collapsed.
these two things combine to make...a deeply unfun digital world, not that it's been "fun" for much of the past five years. anyway. thank you for sharing!! really great stuff.
Yep, and like the old adage says: when brands jump on the trend, it's no longer cool.
too late already published ¯\_(ツ)_/¯