A Digital Garden

Tag: life

  • “Grok, show me the first man without sin”

    “In many ways, the project of technology is the elimination of forgetting.” & “We are building perfect records of a life no one lived. And in doing so we are creating a punishment for ourselves that not even the most severe fire and brimstone pastor could imagine: contemporary and continuous judgement in this life.” This…

  • Get a life

    Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”

  • Tick-Tock

    “It was the summer of 1996, early June, and I was teaching a course at Simmons College in Boston to make some extra dough. Jennifer was clerking for a lawfirm down in Dallas, pregnant with our first child. My dad called. He and my mom were in London, where they had rented a small flat…