There is no heaven for newthings. There is no Hall of Fame. There is only memory and change. Nothing (the opposite of newthing) and no one are immune. The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. To do this, newthing must counterintuitively accept that one day it will die. If newthing accepts the certainty of death, howev

Newthings have a proven proclivity to attract people who love money. When these people get their hands on a newthing, everything that makes the newthing beautiful and elegant and true to its essence will be challenged down to the penny. People who love money love money more than they love the newthing. But newthings need money too, especially at th

Ah newthing, we think. I know what you are. Making you will be easy. The path is straight and sure. The newthing hears your boasts and does not react, but knows how much you have to learn. As you build the newthing you will discover that building a newthing is a strange act where the harder you go about trying to do it, the harder it becomes. It wi

I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

– Gloria Naylor

By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extract