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This is also the blueprint for a happy co-existence with the machines. The machines handle the optimization, we take care of the meaning. They execute, we dream. They calculate, and we create. This beautiful symbiosis will be the seed of everything because when humans live from their creative nature, we build societies that breathe. When we stay... See more

Theoretically, a social media feed should heighten awareness and memory, and dilate time, because it selects for content that’s exciting, outrageous, and scary. And yet we seldom remember such content. The reason for this discrepancy is simple: when every post is alarming, your brain quickly becomes desensitised, and starts to interpret alarming... See more

Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.