Ideally technological progress doesn’t negate what came before. It adds a new layer. It enhances parts of our humanity rather than replacing pieces of it.
Author: Digital Dillinger
Happiness Framework
David Foster Wallace was ahead of his time when he wrote Infinite Jest. The MacGuffin within the novel is a movie that is so captivating that viewers lose interest in anything else. Sound familiar?
4-Hour Work Day
I’m sitting at a Chase Sapphire Lounge at an international airport. All around me are “business people”. How do I know? For starters, they are starring into their Lenovo Thinkbooks. They smile awkwardly every once and awhile to signal their engagement with whomever is on the other side. The outliers in this room? The lucky ones starring into a MacBook instead of a Thinkbook. Literally not a single person in my view is not grinding away. Like most people, these folks are completely tethered to the albatross that is their VPN.