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The dictionary definition of kind is to be of a sympathetic, helpful, forbearing nature. The wonderfully named website “Kindness Is Everything” provides a more provocative statement: Kindness Is Love In Action.
Albert Wenger • The Power of Kindness
Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
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Getting rid of everything was necessary. I had to create space. When I arrived at the Barcelona airport with my suitcase (and recently acquired carry-on), I was struck by the overwhelming sense of freedom. I could go anywhere and be anyone.
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If you're not learning, you're probably not on a path that leads to superlinear returns.
Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.
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As Miuccia Prada said:
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
#35 Fractal: Scaling Coliving and Slouching Towards Utopia with Priya Rose
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And I think if we go further towards the convenience where there is no friction, then we don't make choices anymore. Then we're just consuming. I think USBs force people to make choices. And those choices define you. And that's what's beautiful about it.
This is now nearly forty years ago and I have since developed a much more differentiated appreciation of both cultures, seeing the positives and negatives in each of them more clearly. And of course the cultures themselves haven’t been static. For example, young entrepreneurs in both places are much more alike today.