3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
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—Mark
“They might look noble and commanding, but they're only masters of themselves and they usually prefer to work alone. They don't suffer from the need for company that we do, and though a lack of social attachments can seem like a sort of freedom, it's a freedom from nearly everything we care about.”
—A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, by Jonathan Meiburg (2021)
“We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of intertwined parts and related entities, past and present.“
—The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly (2016)
“For the person who understands code, the whole world reveals itself as a series of decisions made by planners and designers for how the rest of us should live.”
—Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, by Douglas Rushkoff (2010)