the inconvenience of convenience
by sari and · updated 15d ago
the inconvenience of convenience
by sari and · updated 15d ago
sari added 15d ago
Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products that reveal themselves slowly - more whisper than scream.
-Dennis Paphitis
sari added 4mo ago
sari added 4mo ago
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while con
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sari added 5mo ago
sari added 5mo ago
Abigail Disney (the Disney heiress) on how inconveniences keep us human.
Pedro Parrachia added 1y ago
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 ar
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