Everyone sits in the same traffic now
Show notes
The builders of the internet wanted to be the next Steve Jobs. They became the next Robert Moses instead.
On a special return episode of New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey discuss how the web went from an open landscape of neighborhoods to a handful of crowded highways — and why those roads are so difficult to leave. As AI redraws the map again, we explore what it would mean to build online spaces that people can change or leave without abandoning their work and communities.
A conversation about the ideas in Yancey’s essay “Everyone sits in the same traffic now.”
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