Nouran Abed
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Nouran Abed
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
“The quantified self, meanwhile, turns our sensations into data, measurable signals. We know the heart beats, but we no longer feel it.” – Marie Dollé
Thomas Klaffke • Forgotten bodies in a headspace world
“The infoverse may be infinite, but our allotment of days is not.” We ought to be conscious of how far and how quickly we move through the internet. But without a physical way to observe our time spent online, we risk scrolling, skimming, and hyperlinking ourselves to oblivion.
Jon Gacnik • On observing time /╲/╲/╲
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig
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The Solo Table Theory When you sit alone at a café in a foreign city, you realize you don't need company to enjoy life. You taste every sip. You sit with your thoughts. You watch the world pass by. Realizing your own company is enough.
Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk.
But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous
But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous
We can now measure and analyze dimensions of personal and social life that we wouldn’t even have thought to measure a decade or two ago. It was always theoretically possible for us to count our steps, but altogether impractical. Now we can have it done for us passively. Indeed, as most of us know all too well, all manner of information about us and... See more