Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
Our constant potential connectivity to our work means that all moments of our lives are potentially time for work. Those who work in the gig economy are asked to be their own bosses, even while feeling the pressures of the algorithm to get to work. Our social media profiles are reflections of our most optimised selves, curated to project an image o
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
Whatever we had in mind (consciously or subconsciously) isn’t what’s happening. Instead, it’s more difficult, overwhelming, or dull than we’d envisioned.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
“In my reading, the cultural achievement of modernity is that it has nearly perfected human beings’ ability to establish a certain distance from the world while at the same time bringing it within our manipulative reach .”
- Hartmut Rosa, The Uncontrollability of the World
- Hartmut Rosa, The Uncontrollability of the World
Note by P. Jordan Anderson on Substack
“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.” — Vincent van Gogh
71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and this sounds like a lot of water.
But only 0.12% of Earth's total volume is liquid water.
Look at this chart.
The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles and has a volume of ... See more
It took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the
... See moreJames Bridle • New Dark Age
The problem is, we no longer live solely among those we know well. We're now forced to refine our personalities by the countless eyes of strangers. And this has begun to affect the process by which we develop our identities.