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The democratizing power that lets anyone build a business or share their knowledge is built on an infrastructure designed to capture and commodify our attention. We're trapped in a system where the medicine is also the poison.

The second road is learning to navigate existing systems more consciously. This means:

• Teaching digital literacy that goes beyond privacy concerns to understand attention dynamics and how you might be getting trapped by your preferences


• Developing cross-platform resilience for creators and businesses


• Creating ways to archive and preserve digital cultu

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The problem is that it’s an addiction. We are addicted to being informed, which makes complete sense, because we are little animals. If the rabbit could know exactly what danger it could or will face, it would be all over RabbitTok. Our little brains love knowing exactly what is up, and we love being nosy. These platforms haven't created these desi... See more

Digital Infrastructure: Our entire system of mass communication is privatized and optimized for profit. Elon was able to buy Twitter! The billionaires own the papers! Meta owns Instagram and Facebook! The way we communicate is an addiction because it has to be - communication is a commodity. That’s how money is made. We are a nation of addicts, thi... See more

Carl Jung proposed that phenomena like UFOs could be seen as a breakdown or manifestation of the collective unconscious. In his work Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky , Jung explored the idea that UFO sightings might not just be physical phenomena but could also reflect psychological or archetypal symbols from the collective u... See more

THEY ATE TOGETHER every chance they could. They had to. The enormous photocopiers they were responsible for maintaining were so complex, temperamental, and variable between models and upgrades that it was difficult to keep the machines functioning without frequent conversations with their peers about the ever-shifting nuances of repair and care. Th... See more

But I also love the way that buildings are — they’re these huge structures that we have accepted as the places we go in to get what we need, or to sleep, or to work, or whatever. They’re also these huge towering structures. I think of them as if they’re creatures; they’re other kinds of beings. Sometimes we don’t even touch them. I’m interested in ... See more

What keeps you returning to architecture?

I’ve talked about architecture for a long time. I feel like it emerged out of questions I used to have — or answers I used to find — in the city. I used to want to write about the city all the time and a lot of my books take place in cities. Then I used to talk about the sentence as a city, as a space to mov... See more