weekly Go Flip Yourself

If we want to revitalize our neighborhood communities, we should ask: which factors explain why so many have declined in the face of technological change? I see four: changes in the physical landscape, decline in local institutions, individualization of religion, and shifts in our education and aspirations. Where these four factors have changed the least, community remains the strongest.

• Internet ate the world; then broke; then some people rallied to fix it; then… we’re lost — disoriented

• what do we collectively even desire?

• at first, you just want to hang out and have fun; then you grow up and have less time for the group chat

• saying you want to change something, and actually changing it are two different jobs

• the New Internet needs a more honest relationship to money

• Are.na is deserving of its unofficial title as golden child of the New Internet

my goals of buying things of quality and character, objects with a story to tell

Culture's positive effects on the brain: Aesthetic experiences enhance the quality of human life through (1) providing a cure for boredom, (2) broadening an individual's ability to perceive the world, and (3) preparing the individual to deal with future contingencies.