3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“We don’t perceive each year as a fixed period of time; we experience each new year as a smaller and smaller fraction of the life we’ve lived.”
—Hello World: How Algorithms will Define our Future and Why We Should Learn To Live With It, by Hannah Fry (2018)
“The newcomer effect is also known as the ‘Eternal September’ problem, a term coined by members of the early online community Usenet, which experienced an influx of newcomers every September due to new students getting access for the first time.”
—Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, by Nadia Eghbal (2020)
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach the point where they can’t live without it.”
—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari (2011)