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Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It

Every once in a while, I meet a person who radiates joy. These are people who seem to glow with an inner light. They are kind, tranquil, delighted by small pleasures, and grateful for the large ones. These people are not perfect. They get exhausted and stressed. They make errors in judgment. But they live for others, and not for themselves. They’ve... See more

David Brooks • The Second Mountain

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times

Today, this culture is at its fever pitch. But there’s also been a backlash: There’s been innumerable talk about the millennial burnout, the dangers of hustle porn, the warnings about our ever-shortening attention spans, and about the benefits of unplugging. We are all embracing the quiet time.

Ana Andjelic • Personal branding for people who hate personal branding

“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”

Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.

Gurwinder • 30 Useful Principles

“OTHER PEOPLE It’s hard to accept that other people’s lives are as full and real and now as yours. You look at someone and sort of think, against your intellectual knowing better, that they have a less complex life, they’re able to flit about, their lives aren’t clogged with the same kind of pressing deadlines, they don’t really have cousins like

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

800 page novels, 3.5 hour blockbuster movies, 4+ hour podcasts… Not to mention homesteading social media accounts with millions (and millions) of followers, slow food journaling version 2.4 promoting sourdough bread-making, old-school pickling and marmalade making — what’s going on?

Are we experiencing a new and evolved slow revolution? Is this the... See more