How Long Will We Swallow the Lie?
The myths we cling to now are manufactured in boardrooms and back rooms, polished for our consumption, meant to distract, to pacify, to give us something to hope for, or rage against, or buy.
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Engineering People At Scale
What if the game isn’t about control through fear, but through comfort? Through curated choices that never really felt like choices? Through tech that learns what we want—then slowly decides what we want?
424. I Named The Site After a Number. Here’s Why.
The 424 became a small act of defiance against a world that demands constant explanation. A reminder that some of the most important choices we make don’t come from logic or plans, but from a quiet tug at the edge of awareness.
What gives our lives weight and meaning?
The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
The English Patient: Fantasies of Being Skinless and Being Buried Alive?
English Patient: I did not experience a love story. It was a story of pathological, sadomasochistic obsession. I could have found that interesting in a movie, but please don’t tell me that was love.