I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
I started reading Erewhon, by Samuel Butler, published in 1872, because I read somewhere that it contained a dystopian view of technology. It does, but this is a relatively small part of the entire thesis proposed...
(Click the title to see a follow-up comment to this post) “Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century caused a stir this summer. It’s a major contribution to the study of inequality—but it has some...
Well, maybe not so much. Part 1 of this monologue took the pessimistic view that I, as an individual, had no relevance beyond my last breath. Furthermore, mankind as a whole, appears to labor under...
Recently, Kathy has asked or 85 year old mother, Fran, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a couple of questions about her past. Did she remember food rationing during the war years? Where did certain people...
The link below is about 1200 words by a software engineer about his personal writing habits. http://mlafeldt.github.io/blog/write-every-day/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav True to a large percentage of the technically inclined, its all about himself. This article discusses his...
A Story Recently, I’ve been reading Persun’s Cathedral of Dreams. Residents bask in blissful, meaningless monotony. Outsiders strive thru hard, desperate, emotional days. Some want out from within. Others want in from without. There is a...
In Hacker News this week I found two articles, right next to each other, that shared a theme. I’ll call this theme “I’m not as smart as I seem” or maybe “A crisis in confidence and I...