Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
429 bits, and counting.
I'm an artist, it's core to my job to imagine realities that don't necessarily exist and it's a joy to.
Let's see how the CPUs contained in recent USB-C wall chargers compare to the power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC). The Apollo 11 spacecraft carried 3 humans to the moon and back in 1969.
Would the internet have grown as rapidly as it did between 2000-2020 without Google?
L.A. is the apocalypse: it's you and a bunch of parking lots. No one's going to save you; no one's looking out for you. It's the only city I know where that's the explicit premise of living there – that's the deal you make when you move to L.A.
— BLDGBLOG
Days like this.
That's why I always find myself digging in the past—it helps me understand the possible futures. I see a reference and try to figure it out on a deeper level, how it came to exist.
— Hassan Rahim
Went for a sunrise hike a couple of weekends ago. Rewarded with this gorgeous view.
The chief characteristic of handcrafts is that they maintain by their very nature a direct link to the human heart, so that the work always partakes of a human quality.
— Yanagi Sōetsu
People initially embraced new programs and new capabilities with joy, then came to depend on them, then found themselves subject to a system that controlled their lives.
Sounds like our current relationship with mobile phones. We are all slaves to every ding and red badges.
The result has been epidemic levels of burnout among clinicians. Forty per cent screen positive for depression, and seven per cent report suicidal thinking—almost double the rate of the general working population.
There's a need for user friendly MedTech
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
— Albert A. Bartlett
When I saw what we had
I gave it to when we went here
When you lost your nurses
I found you a doctor in me
Dear fellow frequent flyers: appreciate the diversity of the people you'll encounter, walk by, or interact with on your journeys. We're often so heads down in our phones and so focused on getting to our destination that we forget to recognize the world around us.
The chillest office dog ever.
Views from the SFO <> LAX connection. A part of me misses living in the Bay Area. The other part remembers how cold and gloomy it gets in comparison to LA. 😂
Last week's connection from TLV to LAX via SFO. Dear United, when are you going to open up a LAX <> TLV nonstop route?
Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose...
I'm reaching Nirvana
Goodbye sweet Rwanda
High school was never for me
I say let it be, let it be