David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination
Paul Brandt-Rauftheconversation.com
to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
Most of today’s young people have never had that experience and, as a result, have no idea why it is important to seek out places for quiet study and contemplation.
The Rational Walk • The Thirty Second Mind
The important tools will find you .
Adam Singer • Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
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.
In this frivolous new world, everything must be pleasing and inoffensive. Everything and everybody gets marketed like an exciting new product—even old, creepy politicians, or ancient film actors, or 80-year-old rock stars.
They all get repackaged and rebranded—thank the digital gods for those apps that make old stuff look new! Everything is now... See more
They all get repackaged and rebranded—thank the digital gods for those apps that make old stuff look new! Everything is now... See more
Ted Gioia • Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ross-barkantheguardian.com“The new romanticism has arrived…Backlash is bubbling against tech’s dominance in everyday life, particularly the godlike algorithms - their true calculus still proprietary - that rule all of digital existence.”