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We are addicted to one another,” Jacobs argued, “to the affirmation of our value—our very being—that comes from other human beings. We are addicted to being validated by our peers.”
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
I may have been an avid macOS user once, but in the future I will seek to come as close as possible to using my computing platform as a tool, rather than to become a tool for those who seek to profit on others in cyberspace.
Avoiding Distractions in Modern Computing
Thoughts on Security
Raja had studied Urdu in school in those days before the Partition when students had a choice between Hindi and Urdu. It was a natural enough choice to make for the son of a Delhi family: Urdu had been the court language in the days of the Muslim and Moghul rulers and had persisted as the language of the learned and the cultivated. Hindi was not then considered a language of great pedigree; it had little to show for itself in its modern, clipped, workaday form, and its literature was all in ancient, extinct dialects. Raja, who read much and had a good ear, was aware of such differences.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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