Thomas

Metaphor originates from the Greek word meta meaning ‘across’ and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphor allows us to bring forth or carry over a deeper context which words on face-value can lack.

In a world that is completely without rituals and wholly profane, all that is left are consumption and the satisfaction of needs.

Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.

I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the... See more

The author suggests that Amish are not “radical” because they chose to shun particular technologies, but rather “because they actually make decisions , rather than allowing the decision to be made for them by something called ‘progress.’”