Alex Dobrenko

A reminder: This newsletter is the product of one (1) guy, i.e., me, who spends hours every reading and thinking and trying to figure out a way to write in an entertaining and clear fashion, a task that I succeed at roughly 60 percent of the time. I’m able to do this (spend my working days Studio Ghibli-fying photos of my friends) thanks to the peo... See more

Iain McGilchrist: "If you try to make literature explicit, it doesn't work, like explaining a joke. The effects of good writing are embodied, it effects your heart rate, you're breathing. We take this thing that was implicit and make it explicit and therefore destroy it." https://t.co/4OBp3s5Lvo

The purpose of the book is to present a moral defense of material progress, and a framework the progress movement can use to understand what we are doing and why. It will present a bold, ambitious vision of a future that we want to live in and will be inspired to build. It will acknowledge, even embrace, the problems of progress, and point towards ... See more