Heather W

“The very meaning of a full existence on this earth is to find out who you are and why you are here. Universal intelligence is the idea that when things don’t turn out your way, it is because the universe is protecting you and steering you in a different direction. We all need to spend less time questioning disappointments or rejections.”
― Chelsea Handler, I'll Have What She's Having

“When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Information is abundant; attention is scarce. Information is theoretically infinite, while attention is constrained. This is why information is cheap and attention is expensive.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“US lawmakers are torn between their voters’ concern over tech monopolization and their sense that these are American companies that act as a source of American soft power abroad and of national pride at home.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It