Paxton Shell
@paxiepants
Paxton Shell
- Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See morefrom First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson
We are made of the external world as much as our internal. Social technology, tools, we make and are made by the environment.
The fool
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’
We're all little thinking monkeys hurtling through emptiness on a rock.
Not knowing what we don't know is a constant problem.