Archiv: Essay
Ein sehr persönlicher Bericht über das Leben auf der ISS. Sorgt dafür, dass man von den Sternen träumt. A very personal essay on life on the ISS. Makes you dream of the stars.
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing.
Douglas Adams. Ein Artikel von 1999, und immer noch so wahr. Ah, Douglas Adams. Solid gold, even though the piece is from 1999.
Obwohl sich der Artikel vordergründig mit dem Auswählen von Aktien beschäftigt, so geht es doch eigentlich um “Worldly Wisdom”, darum, wie wir Entscheidungen treffen, mit welchen Modellen wir uns die Welt erklären. Einer dieser Artikel, die man nicht vergisst. Even though the article’s subject is stock picking, it mainly deals with the basic psychology of decision-making, with what the author calls “worldly wisdom”. An interesting read, for sure.
In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea.
The wise elders would explain that inside the aircraft, passengers, who had only paid the price of a few books for the privilege, would impatiently and ungratefully shut their window blinds to the views, would sit in silence next to strangers while watching films about love and friendship - and would complain that the food in miniature plastic beakers before them was not quite as tasty as the sort they could prepare in their own kitchens.
Es ist seltsam, seit Tagen kein Flugzeug mehr zu sehen, keine Kondensstreifen am Himmel zu entdecken… It’s strange to live under a suddenly empty sky.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Ein ausuferndes Essay über Essen, und wie es zu dem geworden ist, was wir heute als Essen kennen. An essay on the history of food and how our perception of it has changed in the last decades.
Ein Essay darüber, was mit unseren Daten passiert, wenn wir sterben. An essay on death and data.
From a disparate set of information, you continually find your own arc, your own story, and my question is: What are you going to do with it?
You’ve got two things going for you. You’ve got the inexplicable moment of inspiration that created your idea, and it’s the closest thing to magic you’ll experience in your life.
In this digitally distant world full of information that appears to only be moving faster and faster, you get to choose: how much will I consume and how much will I create?
I love stories.
