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Writing on attention, technology, memory, culture, and the ordinary questions that shape how we live.
ESSAY // INFORMATION / INTELLIGENCE
Does Having More Information Mean That One Is More Intelligent?
On information, intelligence, wisdom, technology, and judgment.
ESSAY // SPEED / ATTENTION
What Is Lost When Everything Must Be Fast?
On speed, patience, technology, attention, and the value of taking time.
ESSAY // SILENCE / MEANING
Is Silence Inherently a Bad Thing?
On the meaning, value, and possible harm of silence.
ESSAY // UNCERTAINTY / JUDGMENT
The Discipline of Not Knowing
On uncertainty, restraint, and the responsibility of not claiming knowledge too quickly.
ESSAY // MIND / ATTENTION
What Does It Mean to Possess a Mind?
On attention, notifications, solitude, technology, and the ability to direct one's own mind.
ESSAY // MEMORY / ARCHIVES
When Everything Can Be Remembered
On digital memory, recording, privacy, archives, and the meaning of preserving the past.
ESSAY // MACHINES / HUMAN ABILITIES
What Parts of Ourselves Are We Gradually Handing Over to Machines?
On memory, attention, judgment, creativity, and the abilities we may stop practicing as machines perform them for us.
ESSAY // CONVENIENCE / EFFORT
When Does Making Life Easier Begin to Make Life Thinner?
On convenience, effort, independence, participation, and the meaning of an easier life.
Writing on attention, technology, memory, and the conditions that shape contemporary life.
An archive of ideas and observations.
Writing on attention, technology, memory, and the conditions that shape contemporary life.