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this the concept of differentiation seems really, really important to me in a world that seems incredibly homogenizing. I think technology is contribu
Increasingly I feel that the only distinction between machine and human intelligence is our corporeal self, not in the sense that consciousness can on
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hardLive in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft
Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could
How much does it matter what message a city sends? Empirically, the answer seems to be: a lot. You might think that if you had enough strength of min
A city speaks to you mostly by accident — in things you see through windows, in conversations you overhear. It's not something you have to seek out,
The second stage is the longest stage, which is often referred to as the final state, where we're separate from the group. Our identity is in flux, be
Right. Sometimes we change, we don't feel it. So, that's often what I describe, but something seems to be sort of missing there. And a rite of passage
Germany is a great place if you’ve stopped wanting things.The system is designed to protect you — from risk, from failure, from consequences.And event
Being in someone’s home feels so intimate it’s like wow these are your possessions I’m in a little museum of your life, a material manifestation of yo
The site is also like a home in that it’s a collection of many things which are unified only by the person who collected them. I feel as if someone is
The home is decorated and personalized; it takes on the soul of the people who live there and becomes the mirror of their spirit. Yet in the deepest s
“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk about things with myself.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Many older individuals feel a greater sense of freedom with age, inviting them to chase their truest selves, and leave the unimportant angst behind. I
The fear of aging is an ironic (and very Western) concern, seeing as aging and dying are the only things all humans have in common. In many cultures,
or an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enor
The internet used to be an escape from reality. Now, reality is an escape from the internet.
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
The internet has become a series of lacunas, spaces where content used to be.
Outcome Orientation is very simple. At all times, whenever you are doing something or reading something, you should ask yourself the question:“What is
But Outcome Orientation is more powerful, in just about every way. I currently think of Outcome Orientation as level three on a three-tier hierarchy o
a thing that took me 5+ years to learn, maybe closer to 10 years – and I resisted it for a long time – is something very foundational about attention
