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The problem was not with other places, or with the man wanting to see them, but with travel’s dehumanizing effect, which thrust him among people to whom he was forced to relate as a spectator. Chesterton believed that loving what is distant in the proper fashion—namely, from a distance—enabled a more universal connection.
The Case Against Travel
newyorker.com
Bodies that don’t have a liquid core—the Moon and Mars, for instance—don’t have magnetism.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted; meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year. People are still trying to standardize sharing a video reliably over IRC; meanwhile, Slack lets you create custom reaction emoji based on your face.
My First Impressions of Web3
moxie.org
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