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The state is not society.
Socialist experiments consider the state as community and they’re not the same thing. Communal ownership is the same as state ownership. The state is a monarchy.
Human capital is the motor of the economy.
The Way, or the intentional path to doing what you love.
Social networks became “social media,” which, at first, meant receiving content from people you chose to hear from. But in the quest to maximize engagement, the timeline of friends and people you picked to follow turned into a free-for-all battle for attention. And it turns out, for most people, your friends aren’t as entertaining as (god forbid) i... See more
Ev Williams • Making “Social” Social Again
Social media is media. Social networks have slowly dwindled.
Use history to understand the present.
How good we can transform and re-use buildings and areas that no longer fit our needs is a good criteria for future cities. Cities have been in constant evolution since Uruk became a city over five thousand years ago. There are walls in Lebanon that were built using Roman marble columns.
Craft as a new type of knowledge: wisdom. Implicit knowledge learned through the constant repetition of a task.
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 and domestic isolation
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