The Sunday Summary: Problematic screenshots, avoiding website traffic, Nexus, and Readwise

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

Blog posts from the past week

• You have the power that your distant ancestors had: “Humans evolved as hunters and gatherers where we all worked for ourselves. It’s only at the beginning of agriculture we became more hierarchical. The Industrial Revolution and factories made us extremely hierarchical because one individual couldn’t necessarily own or build a factory, but now, thanks to the internet, we’re going back to an age where more and more people can work for themselves.”
• Screenshots continue to be lazy and problematic: Social media is pushing us to use more screenshots and fewer links, which is becoming a larger and larger problem.
• Edit before you record: “This is an idea I got from Walt Disney and don’t even know if it was conscious but he talked about it was so expensive to edit back then that you had to do the edit before you did the drawing. And I was like that’s a really good idea, I still edit after I record too but most of the edit happens before I record.”
• Optimizing for website traffic is dumb: “And so the big differences, two big differences. One, optimizing for traffic is straight up dumb. It it’s just a bad idea. It doesn’t make sense. And number two, the way to improve is not to get more visits to the website, which was the…