We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
“ I'm thinking a lot about the fact that 99% of my work life and professional value creation exists in virtual space. My screen is the portal to a virtual world that I contribute to and that enables me to collaborate on exciting projects around the world. But the result of my work does not influence my physical environment. ... I don't lack social... See more
Alice Katter • Rekindling Neighborhood Bonds: Combatting Collective Loneliness and Fostering Community Care in a Modern World
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working f
... See morefreddiedeboer.substack.com • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that it’s possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
