reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature?
esquire.com
The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to more people than ever and terribly lonely nevertheless. Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.
I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see
She had it coming .
instagram.comwow, sofia isella is so verbal and lyrical.
