Sean Stewart
@seanstews
Sean Stewart
Ordinary
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Commencement Address, American University in Beirut
The digital resistance.
Collections on how to live a good analog life. Being present, mindfulness in your body, but also the crossover with tech and tech companies that have joined the resistance, like Sublime, where they see the need, and Daylight Computer, where there's a need for tech that conforms to our humanity vs. making humanity conform to
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