Phones connected to the after-life, enshittification and a declutter hack
Something that blew my mindWIND PHONES
Death marks the end of one life but is the beginning of a new set of life experiences for those left behind.
Unfinished conversations can fester in the mind long after the reality of loss has sunk in. How do you find closure when you still have things left to say to someone who is no longer there?
In Japan, you can use a windphone - an old rotary telephone inside a phone booth in a graveyard. Anyone can pick up this unwired phone and finish their end of the conversation, and their words will be carried to their loved ones by the wind.
Read more about Itaru Sasaki and how his idea of the wind phone has become a global craze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_phonehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/phone-of-the-windA hack I am trying this monthONE TOUCH
A decluttering hack, the One Touch rule is simple: handle things only once.
Start something only when you have the time to see it through to the end. And don’t put off things that you can finish with minimal effort. One touch, one movement, less overall effort.
I took this hack for a spin on laundry day. I usually take the dried clothes off the clothes rack and dump them on the bed. They sit there attracting odd socks and rolled-up t-shirts till the pile develops into a mountain. At this point, depending on the time of the day, I either fold them or throw them into my wardrobe.
Practising One Touch meant folding and placing them in my wardrobe right after taking the clothes off the rack.
It worked so well that I have tried it out with emails, WhatsApp conversations, and projects with varying degrees of success.
Read more https://www.dailybetteryou.com/p/one-touch-rule_A concept I found interesting_
*HOW INTERNET PLATFORMS DIE*
When a platform starts, it needs users, so it makes itself invaluable to them. The founders use someone else’s money (funding) to subsidise their offering ( goods, free social connections, cheap food delivery).
Once the users are locked in they make themselves valuable to the creators (manufacturers, content creators, restaurateurs) by taking a small commission for access to a large audience.
Once the creators are also locked in, the platforms harvest all the value for themselves. They show users only services from the creators who have paid the platform.
Result:
Users never get to see what they really want.
Quality plummets as only creators who have the money to spend will be seen.
Users leave, creators leave and a zombie platform wanders along eating our brains.
Cory Doctrow calls it the enshittification life cycle. And you can see it happening to Google Search and Instagram right now.
Read more about enshittification and Cory Doctrow here
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys