Stuff we're thinking about
SA: I have tasted transcendence through psychedelics and they’ve been very transformative experiences. But then the next day, there are still crying babies, payroll, and spreadsheets. We live inside a system. Can we simultaneously inhabit the mysticism and the spreadsheet? Is that the goal? I guess what I’m asking is: why is it so hard to integrate... See more
Sari Azout • The Age of The Sublime
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality. Life is so weird and awesome, and there’s so much depth to it, but people, particularly young people, but really everybody with technology and a phone, are sleepwalking through life. It disturbs me... See more
Sari Azout • The Age of The Sublime
Take Brian Eno, who I, at least, find remarkably interesting 50 years into his career. When I listen to Secret Life , the album he did with his protégé Fred Again.. in 2023, it sounds to me like one of the most modern and novel sounds in recent years—just as the album Eno did with Roxy Music in 1972 sounded ahead of its time (and is still... See more
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interesting people are constantly taking risks
"What if what you do to survive / Kills the things you love?"
-Bruce Springsteen's 2005 song "Devils & Dust"
Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense
... See moreInspired by Light Phone’s self description:
"Simple devices with quality tools, designed to be used as little as possible".