Bookmarks: 2020-09-12
Some interesting reads I've come across lately...
Walking is increasingly mediated by technological gadgets worn on wrists or gripped in hands. We spend an increasing amount of time ‘screening’ the world – taking in most of life through a contracted frame that captures objects of immediate interest. To live with eyes on the screen is to be attached, stuck in the frame, taking in what is presented to us and re-presented to us again. But representation – even in fine-grained pixilation – is not experience. To experience is to perceive. When we look at a screen, we might see something, but we don’t perceive. To live life through representations is to live passively, to receive rather than to experience.
~ For the full life experience, put down all devices and walk by John Kaag
I am so grateful that I discovered the IndieWeb. Owning my content and posting my thoughts on my own site instead of a silo like Twitter gives me real freedom. I can decide how my thoughts are displayed (I like to make them available to everyone without advertising), I can edit them and they stay available for as long as I want.
~ I deleted my Twitter account by Jan-Lukas Else
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
~ Love People, Not Things by Joshua Becker
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