Sick of social media, and stuck with it

The year is 2025 and the state of human interaction is at a crossroads. We’ve been here before. The social Internet reinvents itself every decade and five years after a pandemic things have coalesced.

For the better the Internet continues to be a place of discovery, entertainment and shared zeitgeist. At it’s worst it is a terrible conveyer of current events, of share in-depth analysis and a creator of civil public discourse. Personal posturing and AI generated content may have irrevocably broken things.

Why

The Internet is full of algorithmically compiled lists and summaries and those are great, but something is missing. The walled gardens of social media haven’t improved things and unless you follow the right people and check the platform regularly, you’ll likely miss most people’s reposts or recommendations.

History

In 2020 I began compiling a weekly summary of everything I read, watched or otherwise consumed along with a quick one-line takeaway. I’ve found these notes to be a helpful form of journaling, and I’ve tried to share these notes publicly.

I started this substack to share, via email, my weekly list of links and brief description of why it might be worth your time to check each link out. The concept isn’t unique, and I subscribe to several other folks who are doing the same.

Value

I still think it’s important for human curated content and wishfully think back to the hand curated days of the Yahoo directory. The Internet is a lot larger now and I don’t believe we can rely on a single gatekeeper to define that list. The Internet is also becoming a lot more fragmented with echo chambers building around every corner of online life.

In short if you choose to subscribe to the Brain Notes newsletter, I appreciate it and I hope that you find some value or discover something new from my weekly posts.

Thank You!

A brief summary of Dot-Com Bubble 2.0: How Did We Get Here? by Prithvi Raj Chauhan posted on Hacker Noon

Overview

The bubble repeated, for different underlying speculative reasons but effectively the same boom-bust cycle. What happens next to employment and the broad economy is likely a replay of the early 2000s.

@Prcwrites does a great job covering the technical aspects, I’d like to add some perspective from the employment.