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title: The Web’s Grain
date: "2024-05-20T11:00:00Z"
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publishDate: "2015-02-18T00:00:00Z"
bookmarkOf: https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/
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  bookmark:
    url: https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/
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    name: Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
    summary: Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
    author: Frank Chimero
summary: A wonderful presentation on the limitations of the web, and how to adapt
  to them and foster our joy in the web as a medium. I love it!
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A wonderful presentation on the limitations of the web, and how to adapt to them and foster our joy in the web as a medium. I love it!

### Highlights

> The size of what we’re making is unknown until we know what we’re putting there.

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> Technology only adds more—it is never this or that; it is always this _and_ that.

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> Using technology to solve the problems it causes is as futile as cleaning a grass stain by rubbing grass on it.

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> the less you have to do, the less say you have.

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> But if taken too far, convenience becomes a Trojan Horse. We cede too much control and become dependent on something we can no longer steer.

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> Then, we’re left to trust in the benevolence of those who have the power to mold our dependencies.

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> it starts with a question: what is technology’s role in your life? And what, really, do you want from it?