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In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more

archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything

Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill

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The tech industry we know today is what happens when certain received notions meet with a massive amount of cash with nowhere else to go.

Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)

the gray Stalinism of self-absorption

Dan Harris • 10% Happier

Silicon Valley is the timekeeper of society, and its clock is not the sacred time of past traditions and slow moral formation but the heightened race to innovate something new and disrupt what has been.

Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life

People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

we understand the talent search methods of Peter Thiel—one of the most successful talent finders of all time—as intimately linked to Peter’s philosophical and indeed moral judgments of people.

Tyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Prophets and promoters have long promised that technology would set us free, creating vast quantities of leisure time; the fantasy has backfired.

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

But I returned to an America in which the bohemian and the bourgeois were all mixed up. It was now impossible to tell an espresso-sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. And this wasn’t just a matter of fashion accessories. I found that if you investigated people’s attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time, and work, it was getting hard