David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Regaining the connection between human and nature, so maybe the instinct of human nature can finally take over.
"No wonder that men who live day in and day out with such machines and become dependent on them begin to believe that men are merely machines. They are reflecting what they themselves have become."
Introducing Woolgather
HOW MUCH TO BUY YOU? I play an imaginary game with my students called, "How Much to Lick It?" I present them with various situations like "How much to lick the railing at DIA?" or "The floor of the bathroom at Crimson and Gold?" or "A bathroom floor at the Mumbai airport?" They give me various price points. The Mumbai airport usually comes in... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
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?
You are allowed time off the Internet.
Emma Gannon • How to be less online in 2025
Browsers don’t really load websites; they perform them.
johnwest • A website is a performance
