Identify yourself
When the world was not digital – so long ago – it was still meaningful to ask where are you from.
When the world was not digital — so long ago — it was still meaningful to ask where are you from.
The ideas of stickiness and information gravity basically predicts that we will be identified by our digital identity and form part of a digital clan with a digital signature.
Stickiness is that stuff that makes you go back to your social network all the time. It is the features and flow of information that both allows you to input into and feedback from a social network. While we can argue that the features of all social networks are relatively the same — the people that are on there is not.
Reading Map
Where to go next.
Follow the thread, jump to a fresh signal, or step into the deep archive. These are discovery paths through the body of work rather than claims about readership popularity.
Continue the thread
The nearest essays in the chronology, useful when you want to keep moving with the current line of thought.
Fresh signals
Recent essays from the archive for readers who want the newest edge of the map.
Deep archive
Older, less-travelled essays that deserve another pass through the reader’s hands.
Open another territory
Choose a larger field of inquiry when the current essay opens more than one door.