Philo-Musings
Deeper murkier waters to drown in
Philo-Musings
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
We are made of the external world as much as our internal. Social technology, tools, we make and are made by the environment.
The fool
Not knowing what we don't know is a constant problem.
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’
We're all little thinking monkeys hurtling through emptiness on a rock.