David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
On his personal website, he wrote, "My new book, The Joke's Over, emerged as a form of therapy after the shock of sudden death following the suicide of my friend of 35 years, Hunter S Thompson.
"He always said that he would do it but that does not prepare you for the reality of the brutal act.
"As I once printed on a brown paper bag in handset type,... See more
"He always said that he would do it but that does not prepare you for the reality of the brutal act.
"As I once printed on a brown paper bag in handset type,... See more
How Hunter persuaded Steadman to stay Welsh
Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.”
Austin Kleon • Give Yourself What You Needed Then and Give Your Kids What They Need Now
What happens when we replace boredom with constant distraction and stimulation? Warnings about the harmful effects of too much stimulation are nothing new. “For a living organism, protection against stimuli is an almost more important function than the reception of stimuli,” Sigmund Freud observed. But given the range and speed of stimuli at our... See more
Christine Rosen • On The Death of Daydreaming
Deep literacy is what happens when a reader engages with an extended piece of writing in such a way as to anticipate an author's direction and meaning, and engages what one already knows in a dialectical process with the text. The result, with any luck, is a fusion of writer and reader, with the potential to bear original insight.
Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy
AI can make it easier to pass tests but it doesn’t do anything about the actual, magical transformation of learning. The AI student is forever a tenant, never an owner, of their curiosity.
Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid
Our photographs are not memories; they are advertisements, billboards for a life we are too preoccupied to live.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
1 The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.
2 It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.
3 It should do work that is clearly and demon-strably better than the one it replaces.
4 It should use less energy than the one it replaces.
5 If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body.
6 It
... See more3. Invest in cyclical growth and sustainability
Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves... See more
Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Developing the digital garden