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Most of us do not find fictional worlds appealing because we find our own lives despicable, though censorious people often make that assumption. Auden once wrote that “there must always be … escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep.” The sleeper does not disdain consciousness.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
How much his mother’s son he was, she said to herself: he had inherited her gift for loading the weight of his self-sacrifices onto others.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Don’t get me wrong: I can code productively, and have built entire companies by doing so. But I’m not motivated by the code or the fundamental problems themselves. My motivation is always human. That inevitably means I’ve become more of a technical generalist than a deep expert on any particular technical topic; more or less the kind of person Robin described.
Being a Humanist Technologist
Ben Werdmuller
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