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Mind Doodles

• Going viral is now just another inconvenience in life, like when your apartment floods or your power goes out. You may have "caused" it by posting/not sealing your door or blowing a fuse, but it's mostly out of your control.

• As the moral panic around how Zoomers work/communicate continues, we've lost an important thread: their digital lives are largely happening behind closed digital doors. Companies may still own all of their data, but it's not necessarily public to everyone on the platform. This has largely shaped how Snapchat has evolved: users are much more interested in one on one communication and filters instead of a feed that they have no agency over.

• Is a wiki that different from a metaverse? What about co-op text based games? What if you have your own world? I think of Obsidian as my own little internet grove.

• iCloud is already Apple's social network. They might not be able to cultivate social media, but the blue bubble holding text still subtly indicates you're in th