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Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and t
Every industrial revolution1 has produced some form of Romantic backlash, where people run away from tech and towards the human, the medieval, the han
Being a parent, Johnson insisted, isn’t about nobility or beauty, pride or pleasure. Rather, it is “the simple, nerve-wracking, mindless, battering-ra
he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it
Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and t
The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, requires you to cross a moat of low status, a period of time wh
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar a
he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it