on agency & what it gives us
Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons.
taste can be a practice—a result, even, of living authentically.
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
Damien Gayletheguardian.comPositive Friction encourages an alternative design practice in order to restore human agency within online spaces
DVTK • Positive Friction
people seem to be surprisingly bad at using their freedom to feel good, and especially at using it to feel deeply good.
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
there is something quite rebellious and empowering about using your own mind to create other realities.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
in a country where childcare costs over £7,000 a year, for just a part-time nursery place. It’s little wonder that we have turned to frivolous spending on a micro level (termed ‘treat brain’) we can afford. So, yes, that means our bottomless brunches and trips to Ibiza and online shopping binges. Let us blow what we can, on what we can.
marie-claire chappet • ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now
"[Swaraj] is loosely defined as self-rule but it actually goes much deeper," says Kothari, who has written extensively on Swaraj and the ecological crisis. "It means my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community. But it's not the American notion of individualism that I can do what I
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #39
The power of agency is, in practice, the power to build: to direct our intelligence toward the work of understanding the world and adapting it to our needs. It’s how we impose a purposeful order on nature’s chaos.