Blogging
Is this thing still on?
Is blogging still a thing? Is anybody listening? Can you hear me? Hello?
Life
We distinguish the digital from the real
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. William Gibson: The Rolling Stone interview
Part of social progress is understanding
Part of social progress is understanding that a person is not defined only by one’s sexuality, race, or gender. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple speaking up “I’m Proud to be Gay”
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world. President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs
Life
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. Conan O’Brien, in his final Tonight Show.
Life
The human could be translated out of its body
The human could be translated out of its body and into machines, free of the meat, of the flesh. We would hang there, wired into a reticulation of phosphorescent splines. Paul Ford, Just Like Heaven, in his elaborate answer to the question Is there an afterlife?
Psychology
As our jobs (and lives) get more cerebral and less physical
As our jobs (and lives) get more cerebral and less physical, our misunderstandings about the mind (and the self-defeating miscalculations each of us make every day) become ever more important. Seth Godin, Multiple minds
Life
A human being should be able to change a diaper
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
Web
The web is just a braindead platform
The web is just a braindead platform for moving information around, but it’s not your actual friends. Merlin Mann, 03-19-2009