reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Consolations II: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying…
goodreads.com
Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 2)
open.substack.com
great leadership is more important, not less important, with greater technology. The more sophisticated and complex our technology become, the more important the greatest leader becomes.
writing os not generating text. I expect it to be better than me at prose-generation but that is still totally orthogonal to why I write
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.org
I read this in print (via Printernet’s exceptional curation). It beautifully captures the spirit of print. And Kai is a really good interviewer.
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
nytimes.com
an evocative, beautiful piece of writing about new york city written just after 9/11. recommended by Andy Weissman.
sobbed pretty much the entire last episode