Tagged “communication”

Actual emitted sounds are around 60kHz. Article includes pitched-down audio to the audible range, it is some clicking noises

quality Visa rant about twitter, expectations of different media or communication

On underused features and growing accounts.

use lists, DM people, and "optimize for virality only at the cost of your soul"

Great list. Liked the line "Boredom is the stealthy third party in relationships". And this:

9. Talking about feelings is a trap.
   Everyone who knows me knows this is one hill I will die on. While I’m all about encouraging people to talk about their feelings, I am equally devoted to the idea we should shut up sometimes.

Sharing every little thought and feeling with partners is often born of insecurity, which is understandable, especially if your partner is not giving much (or any) feedback. But no-one can listen intently to all of it. It’s exhausting for them, not to mention a little boring.

HN thread

very beautiful. The impossibility of trying to describe incomprehensible things, the inability to explain what you like about someone, or the risk of breaking them down into categories that are then interchangeable

Tips on saying no to people

Awesome diagrams of the inside of undersea cables, and the boats and bots used to lay them.

Some excellent and interesting questions to consider

A bunch of good and/or relatable bits in comments section of this. Some sounds far too intense (the guy's ex-wife needing him to reply to messages within minutes!), some interesting ones on how people use their phones, and how beaviours and norms toward them have changed.

And from another interesting reply:

even if you ignore addiction , mobile phones have been integrated into society in so many infrastructure-like roles that they are hardly at all optional or 'ignorable' at this point.
When you live in a world that requires bills to be paid via mobile, rent to be paid via mobile, mass transit tickets bought via mobile, physical location reservation via mobile, as well as any customer service only available via mobile... who cares about personal addiction; normal life isn't feasible without a mobile phone at that point, and very few (if any at all) mobile phones are designed from the premise that they should respect your attention.

The mobile phones that are designed to preserve the users attention are widely incompatible with any functions that the user needs (billpay/specific group apps, whatever) to stay integrated with the systems being forced upon them, so those options are already non-starter.

That means this problem is worth discussing -- non-compulsive normal people as well as compulsive addicts are being affected by the lack of 'respect for attention' that mobile phones have, and this problem intersects with the 'required prevalence' of mobile phones across the world.

Some interesting thoughts on writing and communication, and a brief technical dive into emoji encoding and display.

Good advice - be genuinely curious about things rather than an NVC parrot