The Bodega at the End of the Internet

Essentially, the underlying geometry of the world is not smooth. Instead, there are "pixels" that cannot be further resolved. Particles do not move continuously, but instead make little quantum leaps from one pixel to the next.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

I could hear the store’s voice telling me what it wanted, how it wanted to be. I understood it perfectly.

I decided to go to the redwoods and figure it out.

Within 5 minutes of my first hike, the trees smiled at me and whispered their simple wisdom.

What is the point of money if it not for freedom?

What is your most scarce resource if not time?

He stopped talking then. He said there wasn't much point in saying things he couldn't hear, things that evaporated in the air, things he couldn't get the taste of.

our political discourse has become so flat. For example, we can’t even talk about working-class people anymore. When did everybody become “middle class”? And even those of us who might objectively be “middle class” can still identify with the working class. There’s something wrong with the fact that we can not talk about the working class.

So the next time you encounter economic data, pay close attention to exactly what is being measured. Because we’re currently in the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ phase of our ‘silent’ recession: you can choose to reckon with the reality that a majority of Americans are struggling economically or you can cling to the truth that billionaires and