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When music is so abundant and our attention is scarce, there’s power in adding more intention to your listening diet, more chaos, more risk. The thrill in finding music that is wired to your singular life is not that thousands of other people have found the same thing. It’s that the music becomes something confounding and unique, a true reflection of where you are and where you’ve been. The beauty of the algorithm of your mind is that it makes perfect sense to no one but yourself.
The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming Services | Pitchfork
Jeremy D. Larson
Our friends have been driven away, perhaps killed. And you ask me to worry about a few cheques and files in father’s office.’ ‘No, that’s only for me to worry about,’ said Bim, as dour as her father, as their house, popping the thermometer into his mouth. ‘That, and the rent to be paid on the house, and five, six, seven people to be fed every day, and Tara to be married off, and Baba to be taken care of for the rest of his life, and you to be got well again -and I don’t know what else.’
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
In the developed nations of the 21st century, convenience — that is, more efficient and easier ways of doing personal tasks — has emerged as perhaps the most powerful force shaping our individual lives and our economies. This is particularly true in America, where, despite all the paeans to freedom and individuality, one sometimes wonders whether convenience is in fact the supreme value.
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