Living ethically

How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

Maxim Leyzerovich x.com

If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned toward eternity, it will be sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves? If I speak strongly,... See more

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

When you’re first getting to know someone, you don’t want to try to peer into their souls right away. It’s best to look at something together.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Culture, he announced defiantly, had become the new counterculture.

Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic

• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen

Kevin Kelly • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle... See more