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When you sit down with a book, you understand the parameters of engagement. You know how long the book is. The book isn’t changing as you read it. It’s a solid, immutable thing. You and the book are on equal terms in many ways, as least from a physics point of view. You know what’s going to happen, and the book abides by its implicit contract,... See more

90% of the world’s data has been created in the past 2 years.

20 years ago, Jef Raskin (the founder of the Macintosh project) asserted that the desktop interface strategy was “inefficient and inhumane.”

Ask people what they want out of life and you’ll likely hear the big things: recognition, wealth, achievement, freedom, status. Ask them what they actually remember, years later, and the answers simplify: a meal, a friendship, a habit, a quiet place.

The structure of our culture makes the ordinary feel illegitimate. It’s treated as something you... See more