Rishita Chaudhary
When it comes to things like relationships, the bonds we form are ever-evolving and impossible to fossilize, just as the living internet will always trace back to links that stop functioning. But if the internet is fundamentally not meant for keeping, I’d still like to imagine what more it has to offer us.
The frailty of profit-oriented projects tha
... See morefrom The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature by Maria Popova
Art by Violeta Lopíz and Valerio Vidali from The Forest by Riccardo Bozzi
But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and inter
... See more“Wain wasn’t suffering,” he concludes. “It was pure cosmic contentedness.”
from The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love by Maria Popova
The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love
In Woolf's words, it made us ask: "But why live at all”
For those who had lost religious faith, Russian literature became the place to contemplate essentially religious questions, and for those who retained
it, Russian literature became a way to revitalize it.
Great section on governance instruments used globally