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“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledg
Wise words from Kevin Kelly’s annual letter: “Despite our political situation, I am more optimistic than ever before. That's because I intentionally c
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page b
And at the same time though, I do think that there’s been a serious decline in the quality of things that we build and a kind of disposability to the
We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster,
The religion scholar James P. Carse wrote that there are two kinds of games in life: finite and infinite. A finite game is played to win; there are cl
Design (furniture, lighting, collectibles) will continue to grow its market share and position in contemporary culture as the creative class in cultur
But these top-down, willpower-heavy systems sucked the joy from everything, even the theoretically thrilling bits, leaving no room for spontaneity, or