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Measuring wealth from zero is a different way to think about it than normal. What makes you wealthy, in the way the word is typically used, isn’t what you have, but what you have compared to the people near you in time, space, and culture.
We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
the Overlord Effect—a Godlike attitude emerging from a feeling that we have mastered the universe and colonized space.
Can a Sense of Awe Inspire a New Worldview? | Atmos
“Our economy isn’t one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage,”
vintagecomputing.com • 25 Responses to “The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again”
Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
According to another global study from a few years ago, and the largest one on the topic so far, over two-thirds (68%) of the public would like more rest.
If Money Was Not an Issue, What Would You Do?
We might not be able to escape the sociopolitical systems that structure the world at large, but by knowing they exist, we can be more intentional about how we move through and beyond them.
Leaving the Cult of Never Enough
“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann