Matthew Garcia
@matthewgarcia
Matthew Garcia
“We could wind up with networks that have the principal effect of fostering addiction to a new generation of electronic narcotics ... their principal themes revolving around instant gratification ... their uses and content determined by mega-corporations pushing mindless consumption of things we don’t need and aren’t good for us.”
--Mitchell Kapor, ... See more
--Mitchell Kapor, ... See more
Note by Gurwinder on Substack
Subtext within Friedman’s Purpose of a Corporation.
focused reflection creates useful reality
“But the span of time between when new technology emerges and when standards and norms are hardened is often short. The Wild West, in other words, only lasts for so long. Eventually, the railroads standardize time; incandescent bulbs beat out arc lamps; the dream of the open web dies.”
“What defines this next phase of human history must begin with the individual.”
Comparing and contrasting that tendency to make generalizations can very easily devalue the experiences of humans who sense the world in very different ways.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
When you see people clearly, you see the transcript of their conversation with reality up until that moment of your meeting, and you glimpse the horizon that stretches out ahead of them. And then sometimes you can help them overhear themselves and overhear what the world wants from them, whether or not that includes working in the role that you had... See more
grahamduncan.blog • What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog
“— you know, I've either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I've sold my house, I've found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and
the time to
create.'
no baby, if you're going to create
you're going to create whether you work
16 hours a day i
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