Ideas I want to write about

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”

Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."

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beautiful things don't ask for attention

The Ecology of Attention

Lia Purpura agnionline.bu.edu

The history of America is the history of convulsions and periods of rupture, followed by creativity and periods of repair. We’ve lived through the rupture; now, Times readers, let’s do the repair.

Legacy isn’t something to keep hermetically sealed in a box, or to place on a shelf or trophy case, only removing it to show off when we have guests over. Look at this legacy. Pretty cool huh?

No. Fuck that. Legacy is a seed you plant into the dirt. You water it, give it sunlight, you let it grow. It is not an artifact but a living organism. Alive

in praise of uselessness

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Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of

Tim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times

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From Zach Duenow for WARC - Strategy Needs an Anima