Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
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Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
The thick life doesn't scale.
That's the whole point.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
Meanwhile the infrastructure for thin desires became essentially inescapable.
It's in your pocket right now.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
the front porches gave way to backyard decks and studio apartments and the coveted Micro Homes where you could be alone with your devices.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
Thick desires are inconvenient.
They take years to cultivate and can't be satisfied on demand.
The desire to master a craft, to read slowly, to be embedded in a genuine community, to understand your place in some tradition larger than yourself: these desires are effortful to acquire and impossible to fully gratify.
They embed you in webs of obligation
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we've gotten good at giving people what they want in a way that prevents them from wanting anything worth having.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
The thin desire reproduces itself without remainder.
The thick desire transforms its host.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.
A thin desire is one that doesn't.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.
A thin desire is one that doesn't.
The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of satisfaction when fulfilled.
A thin desire is one that doesn't.
The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of satisfaction when fulfilled.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.
A thin desire is one that doesn't.