On creating a better climate of ideas
Thinking back to when the internet was new is to remember a time when the world was promised an era of radical openness. The World Wide Web, we were told, would connect us and, in doing so, help us to better think, understand, and imagine. In some ways, the internet has delivered on this promise. It has linked anyone with web access to a flow of information that—in its speed, dynamism, and sheer complexity—resembles thought itself, a kind of global hive mind augmenting our ability to engage with everything, everywhere, all at once.
This Substack is, perhaps, a case in point, a small part of the great river of words and data that is the internet in 2025. The conversations, ideas, and connections that are the heart of The Healthiest Goldfish are enabled and deepened by the online world we have created, a world that has indeed opened new opportunities for how we communicate.
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