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Happiness, Linear Logic, and Being Hit on the Head with a Bag of Bricks

There are lucky people who were raised in not-so-intellectual cultures. You can recognize them by the facial expression. Me, I went through the same grinder as most of my friends.

Learn How to Code, You Say? Why Don’t You Go F*ck Yourself

When I needed money, I learned coding—but I ended up so miserable that I left IT forever.

Too Many Names to Remember: Are We 7 Billion Anonymous Observers?

I can watch a video with 55 million views, cry over it, feel the feeling—and never know who made it, or who was in it.

Benefits of Western Civilization: Hashtags, Pride, No Awe

Look, look! Who else could have thought of such beauty? We clearly are the best.

Will the New Digital Generation Be Remembered as the Lost Digital Generation?

What’s happening to the shiny digital generation in the U.S. has already happened to the generation of my grandparents in the Soviet Union.

Tale of Tiny Man with Scissors: How Abstract Thinking Became Concrete Prison

The machine is vibrating and dancing and humming a tune it likes. You can go as high as you can — but you can’t change the tune… Go go go, tiger.

Brief History of Our Civilization: ‘Buying the Ticket’ to Unlock the Right to Sexuality

Result: A society where people have to metaphorically buy the ticket to unlock their own sexuality (take that, gamification marketers!)

The Horrible Face of the Machine

All you have to do is trust the conductor and feel good about yourself while it lasts.

If World Leaders Were Parents

If world leaders were parents, we would have a very strange selection: On one end of the spectrum, a crazy, militarized parent with a whip who beats his child any time he does something forbidden, and on the other end, a neurotic, passive aggressive parent who feeds the child too much chocolate to earn popularity, and secretly slips meds into his soup so that the child remains a little disoriented at all times, and needs daddy.

The funny thing, if either child were to rebel (against the whip, or against the soup meds), things would get very dramatic and ugly, very quickly.

Codependency…

Lovers, Missionaries and Technology: A Story of a Passionate Little Boy

Happiness, Linear Logic, and Being Hit on the Head with a Bag of Bricks

Learn How to Code, You Say? Why Don’t You Go F*ck Yourself

Too Many Names to Remember: Are We 7 Billion Anonymous Observers?

Benefits of Western Civilization: Hashtags, Pride, No Awe

Will the New Digital Generation Be Remembered as the Lost Digital Generation?

Tale of Tiny Man with Scissors: How Abstract Thinking Became Concrete Prison

Brief History of Our Civilization: ‘Buying the Ticket’ to Unlock the Right to Sexuality

The Horrible Face of the Machine

If World Leaders Were Parents

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