And will it matter when everything comes crashing down?
Few things have emerged unscathed from this era of relentless #disruption, but one thing on which we can all agree is how to tie our shoelaces. Right?
WRONG. It turns out that the plain old over-under-and-around knot that most of us have been tying for decades is scoffed at by knot enthusiasts. According to Boing Boing, the knot that’s all the rage amongst knot nerds is the Berlutti knot, which is similar to the basic shoelace knot but has the advantage of being far less likely to come undone on its own.
But the Berlutti knot isn’t the only game in town. There are also advocates of the knot known as Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot, or simply “Ian’s knot”. It’s the creation of Ian “Professor Shoelace” Fieggen, a self-described “friendly Aussie guy trying to contribute to the internet” who has run the wonderfully Web 1.0-esque Ian’s Shoelace Site for over two decades.
Aftermath spoke to Fieggen last week, discussing how Ian’s Shoelace Site feels like a throwback to the days when the internet was primarily a place for people to discuss and share niche interests, instead of a hideous virtual Rube Goldberg machine that consumes terawatts of energy and our collective sanity in the relentless pursuit of engagement.
