Sublime

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

MASTER:

To Pollak, this was a demonstration not of Bill Baker’s cruelty but of his acumen—in this case to push his deep belief that science rests on a foundation of inquiry rather than certainty. Also, it revealed how nimble Baker’s mind really was. “A very small number of times in my life I’ve been in the presence of somebody who didn’t necessarily answer

He’s an architect’s architect; he told me he’s interested in how buildings can help do the metaphysical work of what the philosopher Martin Heidegger called true dwelling—a social triad made of people, one to another and in their environments.

For Thoreau’s obsession with calculation runs deep. … He says: keep calculating, keep weighing. What exactly do I gain, or lose?

the world doesn’t look like the utopian vision, embraced by early internet pioneers, of large-scale collaboration among strangers.

Its genesis is a largely obvious, mostly unremarkable blog post—not even four hundred words long—that outed a little-known technology investor as homosexual.

imposing order through habits of practice and thought.