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Network spirituality etc etc etc. One of the only books I have ever read twice.
May 10, 2023
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🍄Amazing nonfiction book combining the worlds of philosophy and science
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😃His Short stories are so delightful and nutritious. thinking about technology and its utility in a practical but also creative way. a great antidote to ai doomerism.
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The granddaddy to all cyberpunk media, and incredibly prescient given our current moment. Coined the term “Cyberspace”.
Gibson wrote this on a typewriter in the canadian wilderness in 1984. It was his first novel.
I finished it in 4 days after kicking it around for years. immediately moved on to the sequel.
Honestly prescient doesn’t even begin to describe how accurately this book predicted our present, and its future.
Gibson wrote this on a typewriter in the canadian wilderness in 1984. It was his first novel.
I finished it in 4 days after kicking it around for years. immediately moved on to the sequel.
Honestly prescient doesn’t even begin to describe how accurately this book predicted our present, and its future.
Feb 22, 2025
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🫶This is probably less of a choice and more of a personality defect. It’s ultimately an alienating and soul crushing way to live your life. But there is no way to be successful without being highly critical, at least as an editor. The danger is when you turn it on yourself and people you are close to (inevitable). In a culture where we’re sold blind positivity (profit motive), it's important to stay critical, to stay on your toes. As an editor this is most important. But it’s also important to be an “A-type” thinker instead of a “B-type” thinker: you have to offer ways to improve what it is you’re criticizing, and not just be critical for the sake of criticizing.
May 10, 2023
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🫶Favorite architect, still alive and teaching in Kyoto. His buildings are all formally bizarre in terms of structure and ratio and there’s a theory that him and other Japanese architects of his generation purposefully do not adhere to western architectural proportions and aesthetic ideals as a silent protest against the west because of the war and the nuclear fallout that many of them endured as children. He is also a terrific fiction writer. I’ve been trying to get him to write for the magazine for some time now. Apparently he used to beat his employees with a T-ruler.
May 10, 2023
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🍎Best selling classical music album of all time. Originally written as a lullaby (this is highly disputed). I’ve listened to this nearly every day since I was 18. The voice leading is almost supernatural. There is an argument amongst (highly autistic) classical music fans as to whether the 1955 or 1980 recording by Gould is better. Clearly the answer is the 1955 version that contains all of Gould’s childlike glee (it was his first recording in America) and trademark humming. The 1980 version sounds like an old man trying to revisit his youth; it sounds like an old man close to death, much too clean. I like this piece of music.
May 10, 2023