Taya

But having gone through it before, I now appreciate how rare it is to not-know something you care about and are willing into existence with its ultimate outcome truly unknown.

everything is an app, or a protocol, or a service. nothing is a discovery, or an experiment, or a challenge.

“Today I hand my life to the mystery and say listen - I am filled with fear but I am also filled with a deep knowing that you haven’t let me down yet.”

I believe in aristocracy, though - if that is the right word, and

if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon

rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the con-

siderate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all

nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret

understanding between... See more

The public arena of social media is a battleground between our most Compressed Identities. But it’s in private DMs, small group chats and offline conversations that I often find the most open and insightful conversations that show me who people are and how they want to be seen.

The freedoms associated with liminal spaces – club nights, abandoned buildings, forgotten shopping malls – often have a lot to do with the fact that these places, and the marks people left of themselves within them, will eventually disappear. There’s also something inherently egalitarian about them; a place that nobody owns or stakes an exclusive... See more

New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale . It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited quantity, or geared towards small groups of people who actively choose to receive it. New Media is not something to be fished from a stream, but a sacred pilgrimage one may embark upon.