Digging this article on the Garden vs the Stream on the web.

Think about that for a minute — how much time we’ve all spent arguing, promoting our ideas, and how little time we’ve spent contributing to the general pool of knowledge.

Why? Because we’re infatuated with the stream, infatuated with our own voice, with the argument we’re in, the point we’re trying to make, the people in our circle we’re talking to.

Oof. Yes.

I want a Memex.

https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/