Andreas Vlach
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Andreas Vlach
The structure of games is not that the points are valuable, but that the attempt to get those points, the attempts to win the game and the game’s terms sculpt some kind of interesting or beautiful activity.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
It has been said that man is the only animal that can feel sad after sex. Perhaps what makes money seem sexy is that we can similarly feel sad after buying something.
From “Full Pockets, Empty Lives” -Wachtel, 2003
McLuhan noted that “when information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant.”
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Disorders of Our Collective Consciousness
She told me that twenty years from now, she thinks work will look like waking up in the morning, opening a device, and deciding the character and length of work that you’d like to do: a quick, day’s long project, a year-long commitment, whatever works for you, the worker, in that moment. Everyone a freelancer, everyone in control of the work rhythm
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • How Our System Revenges Rest
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working” - Brian Eno.
Creativity and Work
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination o... See more