Natalie Audelo

Companionship content is the most durable in its closeness to human experience, to being around people . When we search for a YouTube video to watch, we often want the best companion for the next hour and not the most entertaining content.

Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of

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“A.I. won’t replace you, but a shareholder who doesn’t care about quality will” is what the slogan should say.

– @jasongorman@mastodon.cloud

We don’t build community .

We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.

How to communicate your vision effectively? https://t.co/m4JVqwXV4G

Ideas that get written down are like an invisible scaffolding of culture, and tuning out doesn’t protect you from them:

“Being ignorant of the forces shaping society does not exempt you from their influence – it places you at their mercy.”

Lombard was more sophisticated than Bow, but she had the same bald enthusiasm for life: “I love living,” she declared. “Eating, sleeping, and waking up again, skeet shooting, sitting around an old barn doing nothing, my work, taking a bath, talking my ears off, the little things, the big things, the simplest things, the most complicated things — I... See more