Quicksaaaand!
Safety may avoid embarrassment, but it is also boring.
— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld [pg. 52]
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10. The Enterprise Dabblers
Daniel Gross • 2020 Startup Themes
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The fearful did not act; the fearful hoped nothing happened at all.
Robin Sloan • Moonbound: A Novel
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Presumably, parents in the past cared as much about their kids' safety as parents today do. But they took far fewer precautions than parents today, and exerted far fewer controls over kids' behavior. Perhaps they thought it was important that children learn to take risks in order to develop courage. Or perhaps they thought that getting into scrapes... See more
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
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As a result, children’s society has less and less to do with the land around them – land which, anyway, they are unlikely to occupy when they become adults in our hypermobile society. Children’s society exists on the internet if at all, with raids in video games and chat rooms replacing geographically colocated monster hunts.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
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