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Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenous and standardized. They possess us more than we possess them. Everyone’s iPhones look the same, but the Pokedex and Digivice were unique (as I recall) to each owner. They had funky, geometric forms and garish cases and buttons. They weren’t just flat glass touchscreens.
The Dream of the Personal Machine
Kyle Chayka
Just one habit, at the top of any field, can be enough to give an edge over the competition.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants:
“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind."
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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