Charles Broskoski

"Part of this class that you were talking about with Cory Arcangel was using Delicious. Basically, the way it worked is you would send links to Delicious instead of saving them to a bookmarks bar."

"I try to use following links on a Wikipedia trail as a way to lean into the self-directedness of what we mean by research."

"The Library of Babel is a short story that has obvious connections not just to Arena, but to people thinking about hypertext. It is super short; you can read it tonight."

"I was thinking of a platform I like called Letterboxd for movies, or maybe Strava."

"I was thinking of a platform I like called Letterboxd for movies, or maybe Strava."

"Also, I still see people point to Pinterest as being one of the last places on the Internet."

"I was reflecting on a show I watched called The Neighbors, which just came out on HBO."

"I'm not the hugest Obsidian user, or I'm not a complex Obsidian user, but I appreciate that as another manifestation of an orientation that is manifest in a piece of software."

"I think there's been a huge shift, especially in the last six months with Claude and what's happening with LLMs. The disposition towards making software is that you can just do things."

"Read In Search of Lost Time."

"I think the way people do research now started with note-taking apps like Roam and now ChatGPT."

"I think the way people do research now started with note-taking apps like Roam and now ChatGPT."

"You can start to shape your opinions easier than you might have done earlier, like when learning HTML or PHP."

"He wrote a book called On Dialogue, which proposes a practice where a bunch of people sit in a circle to have a generative conversation."

"Directions to Last Visitor was a website that you would go to, and it would geolocate you and give you Google Maps directions to the person who visited the website before you."

"That comes from William Gibson. He has a trilogy of books called the Bridge Trilogy, and it's a post-apocalyptic situation."

"TikTok is full passive learning."

"One of my favorite things I read of yours is the blog post on Areal, your new typeface—a misspelling of the proper Arial."

"Our first mobile app was called Case. If there's any consistent naming scheme, it comes from Gibson stuff."

"Charles is the founder of Are.na, which he spent the last 15 years building alongside a number of collaborators and co-founders."