Mike S
@mas
Mike S
In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about technology romanticizes moments of invention over the ongoing work of maintenance, though it is equally important to the deployment of functional technology in the world
Josh Dzieza • The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
How important is maintenance? Is it profitable to think of it in advance? Or does it just “feel” more “moral”?
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and for X
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”
“If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”
Bibliography for Beginners - Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
All the will-worshippers, from Nietzsche to Mr. Davidson, are really quite empty of volition. They cannot will, they can hardly wish. And if any one wants a proof of this, it can be found quite easily. It can be found in this fact: that they always talk of will as something that expands and breaks out. But it is quite the opposite. Every act of
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
every act of will is an act of self-limitation — just as a painter chooses the frame, the borders, the subject
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“highest happiness and deepest misery” — having children?
“There is no happiness save in understanding the whole”
A modern writer who I think possesses a similar level and flavor of wit is Leif Enger. I have only read Peace Like a River but I’m excited to read his other works, too.
Jazz Clicksubstack.comTo read
Source: technopoly
"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
They insist that nothing but what was in the bodies of the parents can go to make the bodies of the children. But they seem somehow to think that things can get into the heads of the children which were not in the heads of the parents, or, indeed, anywhere else.