Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
This took my breath away and brought me back to my mother’s bedside.
You see — if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways,
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Survival isn’t just about what you focus on. It’s about what you deliberately refuse to focus on.
Restraint is a winning strategy.
Limiting our attention is not a weakness. It’s how we maintain mental fortitude.
Move on.
Restraint is a winning strategy.
Limiting our attention is not a weakness. It’s how we maintain mental fortitude.
Move on.
The Art of (Attention) War
Maggie articulates what I believe is the future of the web, or at least a component of what it will be.
Being bored is not just a pause in the dopamine drip, but the void into which thought, desire, and distraction rush to take shape. It is not merely the opposite of stimulation— it is the state from which all stimulation is an escape. There is boredom, and from it, everything else grows.
Bored
The internet has become a series of lacunas, spaces where content used to be.
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.