J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
Regardless of what happens, our six weeks taught me that the deepest connections don’t come from trying to prove our worth, but from having the courage to be exactly who we are while trusting that we can be loved for it. They come from sharing pieces of our lives with someone without obligation, simply because we want to.
Like entangled particles,
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In his latest work, Program or Be Programmed , the 15th anniversary edition, Rushkoff proposes four methods to avoid being programmed by digital technology, and to instead become the programmers of our world.
What we require is to:
What we require is to:
- Denaturalize power by revealing social constructions which are ideas we merely invented, and are not pre-existing laws
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
I spent years searching for a meaningful definition of the word “love,” and was deeply relieved when I found one in psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as “the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or
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Where good taste is demure, bad taste is bawdy. Where good taste is minimalist, bad taste is maximalist. Where good taste whispers, bad taste screams: “Look! React! Feel!”
judy berman • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
too many trends, not enought taste
Maximislm that screams seems potentially related to Boom Boom aesthetic
The switch back to physical interfaces is also, in many ways, a vibe shift. With touch screens ubiquitous, what was once viewed as luxurious is becoming tacky. Physical controls, done well, now signal the kind of thoughtfulness and exclusivity once attached to the original iPhone.
“People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.” — Richard Thaler