Thomas
@tomcat
Thomas
Work, in fact, is interfering with my work,
and I want to work less so that I can have more time to work.
I need another word.
— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
and I want to work less so that I can have more time to work.
I need another word.
— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
Always Be Optimizing
everywhere we look as creators today the gravity is just pushing us it's just pushing us toward making for other reasons than why we set out to make things in the first place it's so important to remember to make beautiful things to make things that light you up and to make things that you care about there's a wonderful metaphor that I love um it's
... See moreFour-and-a-half years ago, as the COVID epidemic hit its first, horrible spike, Jamais Cascio , a professional futurist, wrote a prescient and helpful post titled, “Facing the Age of Chaos.” He began with this simple insight: “This current moment of political mayhem, climate disasters, and global pandemic — and so much more — vividly demonstrates... See more
Micah L. Sifry • When History Overflows, Build a Lifeboat
“The problem with social media platforms is not just that they seek to hook us on their products, it’s also that they offer themselves as the answer to profound human desires, which they are ultimately unable to satisfy.”
L. M. Sacasas
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
L. M. Sacasas
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society | L. M. Sacasas | Substack
It’s easy to get into a routine of all the things that are supposed to be indicators of a good life, and yet that life is not good.
It’s just... fine.
The “good life” lives beyond those bounds.
It’s just... fine.
The “good life” lives beyond those bounds.
Elle Griffin • Maybe you need to have more fun
Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitude—it is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of “worker” in each and... See more
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus... See more
