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如何与巨物对抗
和把大笨象放进冰箱一样：打开冰箱门，把大笨象放进去，关上冰箱门。 例如，由于工作与人际关系缘故无法放弃微信，没…
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
常读常新。
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.
They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.
https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
常读常新。
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.
They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.
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This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
这周末去光涧实验室参加「阅读」实验时买的小册子。
以前从来没有从装载文字的“容器”角度切入去思考阅读体验的问题。Craig Mod的这篇15年发表在Aeon的文章提供了这个角度的思考，今天读来依然是毫不过时：装载文字的“容器”是非常重要的。它们塑造了文本故事的呈现状态，也塑造了读者阅读故事时的体验。如果选择了合适的书籍装订、布面装帧、裁切尺寸、纸张质地、页边距安排和印刷油墨，是可以大大增强读者与文字之间的联系的。如果做出了错误的选择，那么文字的载体就可能成为阻碍读者亲近文字的隔阂。
有趣的一点是这篇文章我早前阅读过原版，当时是在电脑上看的，看完后并没有留下深刻的印象，读完之后没多久就忘了。
这次在线下重新遇到「它」的时候很惊喜，文字的容器变了，阅读体验大大提升，也再次印证了了作者的观点，装载文字的容器很重要，而这些细节都是我们很常忽视的地方。
中文版阅读入口：https://www.jiemian.com/article/3093745.html
英文版阅读入口： https://aeon.co/essays/stagnant-and-dull-can-digital-books-ever-replace-print
以前从来没有从装载文字的“容器”角度切入去思考阅读体验的问题。Craig Mod的这篇15年发表在Aeon的文章提供了这个角度的思考，今天读来依然是毫不过时：装载文字的“容器”是非常重要的。它们塑造了文本故事的呈现状态，也塑造了读者阅读故事时的体验。如果选择了合适的书籍装订、布面装帧、裁切尺寸、纸张质地、页边距安排和印刷油墨，是可以大大增强读者与文字之间的联系的。如果做出了错误的选择，那么文字的载体就可能成为阻碍读者亲近文字的隔阂。
有趣的一点是这篇文章我早前阅读过原版，当时是在电脑上看的，看完后并没有留下深刻的印象，读完之后没多久就忘了。
这次在线下重新遇到「它」的时候很惊喜，文字的容器变了，阅读体验大大提升，也再次印证了了作者的观点，装载文字的容器很重要，而这些细节都是我们很常忽视的地方。
中文版阅读入口：https://www.jiemian.com/article/3093745.html
英文版阅读入口： https://aeon.co/essays/stagnant-and-dull-can-digital-books-ever-replace-print
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-marc-andreessen-vc-and "It can sometimes feel that all the exciting things have already happened, that the frontier is closed, that we’re at the end of technological history and there’s nothing left to do but maintain what already exists. This is just a failure of imagination. In fact, the opposite is true. We’re surrounding by rotting incumbents that will all need to be replaced by new technologies. Let’s get on it."
Noahpinion
Interview: Marc Andreessen, VC and tech pioneer
Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I’ll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely used graphical web browser, Mosaic, which as I see it makes him one of the inventors of the internet. He co-founded Netscape and various other companies.…
才知道Marc Andreessen 出版了个名叫 Future 的媒体刊物https://future.a16z.com/technology-saves-the-world/
Andreessen Horowitz
Technology Saves the World
Only 15 months ago — March 13, 2020 — COVID-19 became a national emergency in the United States. My assumption at the time was that COVID lockdowns could extend as long as five years, the previous speed record for modern …
Marc Andreessen's Guide for Career Planning：
P0:Introduction
P1:Opportunity
P2:Skills and education
P3:Where to go and why
P0:Introduction
P1:Opportunity
P2:Skills and education
P3:Where to go and why
How a VR Museum Will Tell LGBTQ+ Stories — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-a-vr-museum-will-tell-lgbtq-stories
The first LGBTQ+ virtual reality museum will open next month. The museum is the brainchild of Antonia Forster, a Unity developer who wanted to create a space where queer stories can be told in more immersive, expressive, and personal ways
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-a-vr-museum-will-tell-lgbtq-stories
The first LGBTQ+ virtual reality museum will open next month. The museum is the brainchild of Antonia Forster, a Unity developer who wanted to create a space where queer stories can be told in more immersive, expressive, and personal ways
The Information
How a VR Museum Will Tell LGBTQ+ Stories
While I enjoyed a week of rest and relaxation away from VR and AR (and, most of the time, WiFi), there was still plenty of news during 2021’s first week of summer. In the newsletter’s last installment, I covered Facebook’s first foray into advertising inside…
The current and the wind | Seth's Blog
https://seths.blog/2021/07/the-current-and-the-wind/
https://seths.blog/2021/07/the-current-and-the-wind/
Seth's Blog
The current and the wind
The wind gets all the attention. The wind howls and the wind gusts… But the wind is light. The current, on the other hand is persistent and heavy. On a river, it’s the current that will…
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzUzOTYzODI0MQ==&mid=2247485258&idx=1&sn=a1026973ffff7d642cddb37535edcf7e&chksm=fac427c4cdb3aed2ebba72f026b1184decdc57ee5322ee0b8368ba83a80e21fa95c753ad2ef0&&&sessionid=0&scene=126&clicktime=1626755632&enterid=1626755632#rd 很有趣的书评，通过城市规划的类比，对社区产品中经常谈到的“体感”、“多样性”有了更深入的理解
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【读书】多样性是社区繁荣的核心要素？——读《美国大城市的死与生》
《美国大城市的死与生》这本书，作者创新性的从整体生态角度革新了城市规划领域，并提出“当所有人都是城市的创造者时，城市才有可能为所有人提供一些东西”的观点。本篇，我们来看看城市规划理论对互联网社区平台运营的启示。
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/non-essential-freedoms
//It feels increasingly difficult to access forms of historical material which haven’t been diligently curated for your good, filtered into bland homogeneity to suit some corporation’s agenda. By comparison, the mild anarchy of those tottering book piles came as a relief. What a pleasure to be trusted to exercise choice and judgement, just left to get on with it, rather than being told what you ought to want. After a year of surveillance and constraint, that finally felt something like freedom.//
//It feels increasingly difficult to access forms of historical material which haven’t been diligently curated for your good, filtered into bland homogeneity to suit some corporation’s agenda. By comparison, the mild anarchy of those tottering book piles came as a relief. What a pleasure to be trusted to exercise choice and judgement, just left to get on with it, rather than being told what you ought to want. After a year of surveillance and constraint, that finally felt something like freedom.//
Historytoday
Non-essential Freedoms