Hi, and welcome back to Untangled, a newsletter and podcast about technology, people, and power. In ‘Technically Social’ I argued that technological affordances shape our relationships, and, as an example, mentioned that TikTok is encouraging more one-sided relationships. Then I realized, Substack isn’t all that different. You read my newsletter, so you have some sense of who I am and what makes me tick, but I know very little about you. I’d like to change that! So in this issue, I’m going to bring you behind the scenes of Untangled, share how I’m thinking about its future, and extend a personal offer, from me to you.
This is me in my office in LA. It’s where all the writing happens, and, ya know, mostly doesn’t happen.
Half of the time, ‘writing’ is me staring at a screen, waiting impatiently for the words to come. They do, eventually. Slowly, and on their own terms. Over the last year and a half, I’ve actually written 56,032 of them for Untangled — that’s a 200-page book, y’all! Findi…
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