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Again, I feel similar to how Popova describes herself:

“A reader who writes.”

Interestingly, reading, thinking, and writing are all intertwined. Popova says:

“It’s hard to separate the reading and research part of the process from the writing and synthesis one. The osmosis of the two is where the magic happens – that place where you pull existing... See more

Reclaiming Attention

But do remember, it’s the same thing! It’s the same thing, forever and always. Look at this:

Houllebecq - value detaches from human experience

Dostoyevsky - rapid progress can fracture human psychology

Philip K. Dick - our struggle to distinguish reality from simulation

Kurt Vonnegut - automation would both solve and create problems... See more

You don't, you don't scale through algorithmic systems. You scale through social ones. You scale through systems that are situating context that are facilitating relationships. It's people centered, not technology centered.

So instead, my only option to be loved is to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. To wear my heart on my digital sleeve, a proverbial sleeve that’s threads are made up of a sum of all of my writing, social media accounts, in-person interactions, and more, not just a curated feed of minimum viable story filled with dopamine-inducing 280... See more

I find an interesting parallel here to the ideas James Scott proposes in Seeing Like a State (which we covered back in RE #4): a top-down, central planning-style of design can't effectively predict the diversity of user needs. It turns out, contra to the "expert architect", that the users know best what they need from their space. And often even... See more

“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”

― Richard Powers, The Overstory