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"Silicon Valley can be an amazingly drab place. The peninsula south of San Francisco has natural beauty, with rolling hills and coastal views, but you strain to see them beyond so many corporate parking lots. Mountain View and Menlo Park are bizarrely full of rug shops," — Dec 23, 2025 07:04AM
"Silicon Valley can be an amazingly drab place. The peninsula south of San Francisco has natural beauty, with rolling hills and coastal views, but you strain to see them beyond so many corporate parking lots. Mountain View and Menlo Park are bizarrely full of rug shops," — Dec 23, 2025 07:04AM
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"How the high-tech rednecks mastered cybernetics and corporate culture without losing Christ or country music… Whole earth catalog" — Aug 12, 2025 09:15AM
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“Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor.”
― The Empire of Gold
― The Empire of Gold
“Uniformity is not unity. Silence is not peace.”
― Raybearer
― Raybearer
“Sometimes I would worry about my internet habits and force myself awy from the computer, to read a magazine or book. Contemporary literature offered no respite: I would find the prose cluttered with data points, tenuous historical connections, detail so finely tuned it could have only been extracted from a feverish night of search-engine queries. Aphorisms were in; authors were wired. I would pick up books that had been heavily documented on social media, only to find that the books themselves had a curatorial affect: beautiful descriptions of little substance, arranged in elegant vignettes—gestural text, the equivalent of a rumpled linen bedsheet or a bunch of dahlias placed just so. Oh, I would think, turning the page. This author is addicted to the internet, too.”
― Uncanny Valley
― Uncanny Valley
“In the realm of aesthetics, reason is always subordinate to perception.”
― Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
― Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
“We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation, making it harder, in the words of Harry Frankfurt, to “want what we want to want.” Thus there are deep ethical implications lurking here for freedom, wellbeing, and even the integrity of the self.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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