The Belan Deck
Of course people die everyday, but Shakespeare and Cervantes on the same day, Adams and Jefferson: what are the odds?
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
A list of towns visited does not describe a journey. Language is always an abbreviation.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
The dominant ethos of our times: who cares as long as my side wins.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
Group 2 files past the gate agent single file, always the one guy who doesn’t have the boarding pass pulled up on his phone yet.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
The tyranny of electronic revisions means that one could work on a deck forever and never “finish” it.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
Meetings have a very low rate of information transfer.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
We all want the unknowable, the sublime.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. Said David F. Wallace.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
Stories, as Ishiguro said, are like saying to someone “This is how it feels to me. Do you understand what I’m saying? Does it also feel this way to you?” It’s absurd to ask a computer the second question.