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I here submit the concept of a multidimensional balance of human life which can serve as a framework for evaluating man’s relation to his tools.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
Why did Bim allow nothing to change? Surely Baba ought to begin to grow and develop at last, to unfold and reach out and stretch. But whenever she saw them, at intervals of three or five years, all was exactly as before.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
So I’ve decided to reactivate LTD, in a limited way. I’m conceiving of it, at this time, as the digital tool that fills in the few gaps I have remaining in a life of knowledge work and personal record. Here’s where I am today and here’s what I think it looks like. These are the things I can see and hear. These are the books I want to remember because culture is made up of what remains after everything else has been forgotten. Also photos of chickens.
Going Analogue, Returning to Digital
warrenellis.ltd
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