Alex Dobrenko

"the gradual + slow build of something beautiful and substantial interests me more than suddenly giving into what feels convenient or pleasurable in one slice of a moment in time" https://t.co/SyooBOYZ4p

Desperation is a black hole that can never be filled with what lies outside of us.

Tactic 3: Pin friend (for iPhone)

This is my favorite method and the method of disconnection I currently use. The idea was born out of really enjoying using a dumb phone, but finding it difficult to navigate without Google Maps. I wondered, “Is there a way I could have a phone that just offered texting, phone calls, and maps?” It turns out, there... See more

In her essay,

A Vernacular Web

(2005), Olia Lialina describes the web of the mid-1990s as:

bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction. It was a web of sudden connections and personal links. Pages were built on the edge of tomorrow, full of hope for a faster connection and a more powerful computer... it was a web of amateurs soon to be

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In addition, organizations can’t simply import AIs as if they were just hiring additional people. Work flows and even the shape of the organizations need to change to fit AIs. Something similar happened as organizations electrified a century ago. One could not introduce electric motors, telegrams, lights, telephones, into a company without changing... See more

1. Proof of Patronage