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Seeing like a military complex?
Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
Kelly's insight about wine applies perfectly to how we think about personal growth. Just as mindlessly drinking more wine doesn't make us better wine connoisseurs, frantically doing more doesn't make us more successful humans. When we apply Type 2 thinking to our lives, it shifts everything - from how we parent (quality time over scheduled... See more
Ben follington salience landscape
