> Why does everyone feel overwhelmed? (...) We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. The real answer has less to do with any single media entity. (...) Authority used to be the organizing principle. (...) You earned attention by being right, by being first in discovery, or by being big enough to be the default.
> The new and current organizing principle of information is velocity. What matters now is how fast something moves through the network: how quickly it is clicked, shared, quoted, replied to, remixed, and replaced. (...) We built machines that prize acceleration and then act puzzled that everything feels rushed and slightly manic.
> The meme has become the metastory. (...) Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, Epstein Files, Dodgers. (...) You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the role of the headline. (...) Hook attention and push it toward commerce, to keep the engine running.
> The algorithm is the culture. It decides what gets amplified, who gets to make a living, and what counts as “success.” (...) We get a culture optimized for first takes, not best takes. (...) None of what I am saying is new. Decades ago the media sage Marshall McLuhan summed it up in his timeless phrase, “The medium is the message.”
> The cost of all this [is] the review that took three months but no one will read. It’s the investigation that required patience. It’s the work of understanding something before declaring judgment. All of it still exists, [just] doesn’t travel. (...) We’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise. In the age of AI, will any of this matter when our idea of information will be entirely different?
https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/
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