Andreas Vlach
@vlach
Andreas Vlach
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Kelly Banks (@divergentcoachkelly)
substack.com
But almost everyone appears to agree on one thing. In some way or other, space-time itself seems to fall apart at a black hole, implying that space-time is not the root level of reality but an emergent structure from something deeper. Although Einstein conceived of gravity as the geometry of space-time, his theory also entails the dissolution of
... See moreGeorge Musser • The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
In any case one can’t get rid of the unconscious that easily. Here is a sentence analogous to “We have always been terraforming, so let’s do it consciously now”: “I know I’m an addict so now I’m going to drink fully aware of that fact.” Being aware of “unconscious biases” is a contradiction in terms. And there is a still more salient ecological
... See moreTimothy Morton • Dark Ecology
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world,
... See moreMedium and
As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in... See more
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
If there is something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later” — only a polite fiction we tell ourselves while life quietly moves the furniture. “Later” is where dreams go to suffocate under laundry piles and unread emails. It’s the mirage that keeps the camel walking, not realising the oasis was always the decision to drink now.
... See more“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - R.W. Emerson