Calla Reviews (كالا)

“A white driver locked her door when he merely drove up in traffic one day. He went and locked his door, too, to show that he was as concerned for his safety as she was.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“They explained that as work hours swell and swell, people get more distracted and less productive, and concluded: “These workloads are not sustainable.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

“Its job, for the first time, would be to actually figure out what makes you happy, and to give it to you—instead of figuring out what makes advertisers happy, and how they can manipulate you to give it to them.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

“Every last one of us would now say to ourselves, I would never have attended such an event, I would never have attended a lynching. I would never have stood by, much less cheered, as a fellow human was dismembered and then set on fire here in America. And yet tens of thousands of everyday humans did just that in the lifetime of the oldest among us in Germany, in India, in the American South. This level of cold-hearted disconnection did not happen overnight. It built up over generations of insecurities and resentments.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents