How our love of storytelling builds societies and tears them down. In his previous book, The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall showed us how humans see the world through the paradigm of stories. After all, most of our communication, almost all of our entertainment and all social media is essentially storytelling. We can take in facts …
When Wren is pushed by her best friend to go on a few dates, she's reluctant and doesn't expect to meet anyone. But she does meet Adam, someone who she feels a strong connection to, and starts seeing seriously. When he suddenly, with barely a word, ghosts her, and then all his profiles disappear and …
I don't really think about my online life or how much I tell people about myself until something goes wrong. And then, I tend to isolate myself. I like to take the time to process my feelings without outside judgement, and I talk to only close friends. Part of this is that so many things …
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This is a hard review to write, because being sent the book by the author, I have to say that at the core there was something that I didn't quite get about this book. Former.ly is the story of a guy who is recruited to work at a mysterious social media start up for a …
Continue reading Former.ly: The Rise And Fall Of A Social Network by Dane Cobain
Dan Underlight is a man in pain. He has always hid himself in his work as a tech executive, but when he's summarily fired by Olivia, the woman who he thought was his closest friend, he has nothing left to hide behind. As he starts to rebuild his life, he wrestles with the loss of …
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