David Pennington
@davidpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
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
THE POORLY DEFINED PROBLEM OF BEING ALIVE
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
Myles helped me avoid an easy error:
Putting the tool before the craft.
Putting the tool before the craft.
Nat Eliason • Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft
Efficient Librarianship – A New Path for the Profession - Public Libraries Online
Douglas Cranepubliclibrariesonline.org
What we want in 2025
Yancey Strickler • What we want in 2025
“The culture tells us two things can’t coexist. People say to me ‘I want to love my life but also pay my rent’ or ‘I want to be super mature but also child-like’, or ‘I want to travel but I’m also a homebody’ or ‘I want to be productive and also relaxed.’ Calm down... you can do both.” — Martha Beck
Emma Gannon • The 'both/and' moments of life
We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called sel... See more