David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
A book where you can enter "sport" and end up with "a diversion of the field" -- this is in fact the opposite of what I'd known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that's finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare.
James Somers • You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
She thought about that for a moment. “But it’s so boring,” she said. “Yes, that’s true,” I said. “Boredom is not just boring. It can also be terrifying. It forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose. But boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention. It creates the space necessary for a new thought to
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Libraries in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Equipping Librarians with the Tools of Idea Management - Forte Labs
Tiago Fortefortelabs.com
Go to just about any LATAM country or Carribean island. Go away from the resorts. Hell, just look over the fence - you will find MOUNTAINS of garbage. There is no trash collection, nowhere for this stuff to GO. So it piles up, it gets picked off by the wind. Eventually they just set it on fire - causing all sorts of other climate and health issues.
This is a real, never-ending American Colonialism - our idea of single use yet permeant.
Electronics evolved rapidly without any help before. Why can't we pull it again?
These technological breakthroughs happened in a context of cheap energy. Unless we have a "unicorn tech" (nuclear fusion for example) giving us cheaper energy than 1960's oil, we will never again see these days of extraordinarily cheap energy.
Without cheap energy, we... See more
These technological breakthroughs happened in a context of cheap energy. Unless we have a "unicorn tech" (nuclear fusion for example) giving us cheaper energy than 1960's oil, we will never again see these days of extraordinarily cheap energy.
Without cheap energy, we... See more
Collapse OS — Why?
This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
Q: Who are your favorite artists in any genre, classic or contemporary? Your favorite writers? Where did you get those shoes?
A: It has to be Goya ‘s Caprichios at the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Napoleonic Wars. (See Milos Foreman ‘s Goya’s Ghosts which shows the awesome connections.) I love Picasso ‘s freedom. Leonardo da Vinci, of... See more
A: It has to be Goya ‘s Caprichios at the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Napoleonic Wars. (See Milos Foreman ‘s Goya’s Ghosts which shows the awesome connections.) I love Picasso ‘s freedom. Leonardo da Vinci, of... See more
Ralph Steadman Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics
I concluded that what we call “intelligence” is as much about virtues such as honesty, integrity, and bravery, as it is about “raw intellect.”