Michal Naka

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I’m basically of the opinion now that social media has edited the code of the human psyche.

Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

- Andy Grove

Management

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

Thought provoking

Social media gives us addictive routine; constantly checking our phones, mindlessly scrolling, endlessly searching for new stimulation. In this way, it keeps us trapped in profane time. Endless cycles without much substance, a timelessness that isn’t full, but empty. Look up from a social media feed and you may have lost half an hour, but that half... See more

Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It

Social media

every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature:

A hedgehog tends to “relate everything to a single central vision, one system, less or more coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel,” wrote Berlin. In contrast, a fox pursues “many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory,” and is skeptical of totalizing theories and causes. Plato and Nietzsche, for example,

Philosophy