“A thousand moderately pleasant one-night stands cannot equal one passionate love affair”
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“A thousand moderately pleasant one-night stands cannot equal one passionate love affair”
“You have the whole history of all recorded music at your fingertips for no money, and that devalues music in general. It doesn’t properly express the work that goes into it, and it certainly doesn’t express how essential music is to the human experience.”
The dark side of abundance: the more you have, the less any one thing means (obvious). This applies to stuff, people, and knowledge. When you can get anything from anywhere, easier than ever, it becomes a matter of personal responsibility and self-awareness to not take things for granted. Spotify can give you an endless stream of awesome music, but
... See moreDo we ask the point of knowing what Einstein thought? Do we make a great puzzle of why Mozart is played in so many adverts or why Vermeer stops everyone in their tracks? Do we need to be reasoned into reading our way through hundreds of pages about behavioural economics or the history of early humans? Do we wonder whether seeing a work of Michelang... See more
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Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many of us are now more intimately connected to smartphones than to nonmediated relationships with people. The net result of this insular life is that relationships with ourselves and... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
Can we maintain profit margins while also making experiences that put us in touch with the wondrous, the delightful, and the mysterious? Isn’t it time to bring our fullest selves to the job? What if we could find romance in and through business?