Ideas I want to write about
Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Jonah & Erinblackbirdspyplane.comIt 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.”
beautiful things don't ask for attention
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
... See moreToday’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
... See moreTim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
As Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote in the classic Dead song “Uncle John’s Band,” “When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.”
Barry Barnes • Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead
Does the idea align with the zeitgeist and culture of the time?
Does the idea resonate with the repressed aspects of people's identities during that period?