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Organic tech questions what computers can be — it’s an exploration of the possibilities, the fringes, and the utopias of the medium that we haven’t explored
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. ― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is B
First, I think great web design requires discipline. And that’s really the hardest thing about making a website. In this field there are a thousand ye
good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.
For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea
Whenever someone tells me they're expecting their first baby and they're nervous, I tell them the following: 'Oh my goodness, that's wonderful. I am s
People shying away from having babies because they heard that it’s so hard are making one of those category errors that are inescapable in this rotten
The most important rewards of being a parent come from the moment-by-moment physical and psychological joy of being with this particular child, and in
But strictly speaking, ambivalent is precisely the word two years in, because my feelings on the experience of motherhood do not add up to a tidy conc
I’ve spent the last three years pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to conceive. I want more children, and I want close age gaps, and I want to write a
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musings on education, new forms of schooling, and what schooling has done to children
across many dimensions we have been acculturated to value the aggregated over the individual, and defaulting to the average consensus has become comfo
one of the reasons school fails to help people model success is that a series of tests introduces no randomness. Success in real life involves a grea
The existence of AI models means that openness is a bigger liability for user-generated content companies. The existence of a successful company in so
The natural end state of marketplaces and social media is the eventual shift from user generated supply to professionalized supply/content. They can f
The usual cycle with social media sites is that they start out being very flexible and open, and are happy to have users even if those users are shari
That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political f
collectively-owned social and cultural institutions built on decentralised infrastructure: democratically governed manifestations of collective intere
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines a