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Finally making progress

Slow progress is still progress...!

Unexpectedly sobbing on the plane only 35% of the way into this book. Love Emily St. John Mandel.

I’m loving this book so far. I really liked the first, but this one somehow feels more juicy than the last one.

The author is excellent at balancing physics knowledge and with literature, and that makes this book so delicious.

So far I love this book. So peculiar, and silly, and intriguing, and mysterious. What a lovely recommendation.

Another quote I wish to highlight from "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture" By Kyle Chayka:

"There’s something Sisyphean in the whole process. Authentic online cultures are always being ruined, as users inevitably complain, but also always emerging again."

A quote I liked from my most recent chapter:
“The same way we might choose to buy organic-labeled food in a grocery store, we have to seek out the digital spaces that support nonhomogenized culture and that allow artists to express themselves without the crushing pressure toward sameness.”