The Best Articles in Digital Life
The most useful articles and videos in Digital Life from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Digital Life Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Digital Life by Refind users in 2023 so far.
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New to Digital Life? These articles make an excellent introduction.
How to Use Discord: A Beginner’s Guide
Confused by the buzzy social platform? Here’s everything you need to know.
What is Technology Doing to Us?
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.
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How to talk to conspiracy theorists—and still be kind
Experts and r/ChangeMyView subreddit moderators offer 10 tips to debunk conspiracy theories convincingly—and kindly.
How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder.
How to make your offline self harder to find online
Keep your personal information personal
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How to avoid Amazon: the definitive guide to online shopping
Amazon is now making up to £8,800 a second, while concerns persist about its tax affairs, treatment of staff and effect on small retailers. Here’s how to buy everything from technology to beauty to…
How to Dox Yourself on the Internet
A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.
Trending
These links are currently making the rounds in Digital Life on Refind.
Google Maps will let you see your routes in 3D
Immersive View is coming to routing.
The “Bing-aissance”: Why “Bing It” Isn’t an Internet Punchline Anymore
“Google it” is a phrase everyone understands. “Bing it” is a rarely-heard jokey line used by tech bros looking to make a point and get a cheap laugh. But that’s changing. Bing is riding the “rising…
The Web Won't Survive AI
The digital war of tomorrow pitches generative AI against digital ID
Take Your Ultrawide Monitors Everywhere With an AR Laptop
Leave the portable monitor at home. Spacetop’s AR laptop lets you flick through as many screens as you want.
AI Spam Is Already Flooding the Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell
The phrase 'as an AI language model' is starting to flood Amazon user reviews and Twitter bot accounts.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Digital Life—all under 10 minutes.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
The internet is about to get a lot safer
Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition. Here's what you need to know.
The mixed-up history of the shuffle button
How one button redefined our relationship to music.
Ranked: The Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the World
In this, our fourth year of Prediction Consensus (now part of our more comprehensive 2023 Global Forecast Series), we’ve learned a few things about the universe of predictions, experts, outlooks, and…
«The power of YouTube, in particular, is sometimes not fully understood. The video platform is the second largest search engine in the world after Google. As well, YouTube has the second highest duration-of-visit numbers in this top 50 ranking. (First place goes to the Chinese video sharing website, Bilibili.)»
Digital detoxes don’t actually work
A digital detox is a period in which a person voluntarily refrains from using digital devices including smartphones, computers and social media platforms. However, recent research has shown that…
«The internet has made it possible to talk at length with strangers who share your passion for any subject—make the most of it»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Digital Life.
The Tinder car heist was a mess — and the revenge plot even messier
He swiped right, they swiped his car, and then, he tried to get even.
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.
The Quest for a Dumber Phone
Digital minimalists are using simple talk-and-text devices to spend less time online, curb distraction, and navigate internet addiction
My week with ChatGPT: can it make me a healthier, happier, more productive person?
I’ve never had an assistant, a life coach or a personal trainer – perhaps AI is just what I’m looking for. I tried it on everything from cocktail-making to holiday-planning to health advice
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Digital Life, including:
OM
Partner emeritus @Trueventures I was a reporter once. I write about tech @ http://om.co My Tumblr: http://Om.blog. Subscribe to my FREE Newsletter: http://om.co/newsletters/
Seth Godin
Author, blogger, a lifetime of projects. This is a retweet of my blog.
zeynep tufekci
Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @Columbia professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter @insight http://www.theinsight.org
Mark Manson
3x #1 NYTimes bestselling author. Best known for F-Bombs and uncomfortable truths. Giving life advice that doesn't suck since 2008.
Nir Eyal
Bestselling author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable"
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Digital Life, including:
MIT Technology Review
Our in-depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s really happening now to help you know what’s coming next. http://technologyreview.com/newsletters
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
Writes about economics, tweets about rabbits. Subscribe to my Substack: http://noahpinion.substack.com Email: noahpiniontwitter@gmail.com
Rest of World
We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West. Sign up: http://restofworld.org/newsletter/
Visual Capitalist
Data-driven visual content focused on global trends, investing, technology, and the economy.
Stratechery
Free Articles from http://stratechery.com. For Daily Updates, follow @StratecheryMO. For the author, follow @benthompson.
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