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Issue 37 of This&That

📱 The Internet is TikTok

The scrolling motion has become our new clicking - an endless, hypnotic swipe through infinite content streams. While my screen time analytics show mobile usage doubling from previous years, it's not from productive browsing but rather from falling into algorithmically-curated content loops. The Atlantic's fascinating deep-dive "The Internet is TikTok" explores how this shift is reshaping our relationship with the digital world.

🕯️ AI as a Religon (AaaR)

Ethan Mollick's book Co-Intelligence doesn't just explain artificial intelligence - it grapples with its implications for the human spirit. Through clear technical exposition and ethical inquiry, Mollick examines how AI works while confronting deeper questions about consciousness, creativity, and our shifting role in an AI-augmented world. The book led me down a rabbit hole - to the emerging AI-based spiritual movements (🍿It’s worth a Netflix Series)!

🥡 A Designer's Treasury

For those moments when inspiration runs dry, here is a set of visual resources that never fail to spark creativity. Dave Dye's meticulously organized Pinterest boards offer deep dives into legendary creators' work, while D&AD's award archives showcase excellence across decades of design. For print enthusiasts, Coverjunkie's massive magazine cover collection and Book Cover Archive's carefully curated selections provide endless composition lessons. Film lovers should explore Shot.cafe's frame library, Art of the Title's opening sequence collection, and Filmgrab’s screenshot library.

&Thats

• Kinopio reimagines mind-mapping - think Miro with a dash of playful chaos that somehow makes perfect sense.

• Good long reads : Strategic Willpower, Absolute Bare Minimum™

• Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore just announced their next gathering for the 26th, and Kerala Literature Festival's 2025 lineup (Jan 23rd-26th) reads like a dream - making those of us who can't attend quietly envious of what we'll miss.

• Discovered Adrian Tomine's Killing and Dying - a graphic novel so painfully human in its quiet moments that his entire bibliography just landed on my TBR.

• Maneken just changed the mockup game - browser-based generator delivers results that make you question why we ever did it differently.

• For Midjourney fans, here is @doganuraldesign with a stunning design style! A must try!

• Re-Noted by Noted : Martin Luther King used Note Cards.