Blockchain Chicken Farm

“These are the times to grow our souls,” she writes. The way to respond to crisis is to practice compassion and change the cycle of suffering.

One farmer told me that the future is a created concept, and that in the fields, in the long dark of winters, there is no future, because every day depends on tending to the present moment.

In contrast, urban culture is centered on the belief that the universe must be constantly corrected on its course, and that life is defined by the pleasure of overcoming future challenges.

There is nothing to be gained by dreaming, and everything to be gained by seeing.

Nationalist dreams stand, dull and mute, nothing more than a point between dream and illusion. There is nothing to be gained by dreaming, and everything to be gained by seeing.

“The West doesn’t understand our problems. We just have too many people. The government has to operate at a scale you can’t even imagine.”

Who must agree to live in fictions that someone else wrote, and who has the power to write fictions for the rest of us? And if anyone can write fictions, why can’t we write new ones?

An essential part of being human is the ability to enter into commitments and to be responsible for the courses of action that they anticipate. A computer can never enter into a commitment.”

The irony is, she stopped feeling fulfilled when her workplace became optimized, her work stripped of meaning, turned into mere labor.

The irony is, she stopped feeling fulfilled when her workplace became optimized, her work stripped of meaning, turned into mere labor.

Transforming work into abstract, quantifiable, optimized labor erases “any of the human and social purposes or the creative satisfactions that Work has always had in other societies.”

life is defined not by uncertainty itself but by a commitment to living despite it.

To turn back the worship of scale and renew our commitments to care.

“Crime prediction is better understood as crime production.”

In the world in which we travel, our right to life hinges on our endlessly creating ourselves.

There’s a perversity about it, a brief flash of familiarity in a global economy that requires namelessness.

“the object that you thought would bring happiness becomes an object that deteriorates the conditions for happiness. But its presence represents the possibility of happiness as such.”

And Alibaba uses all this infrastructure for free, relies on us to make decisions on lowering the quality of goods. But what happens next? There’s only so much cutting

And Alibaba uses all this infrastructure for free, relies on us to make decisions on lowering the quality of goods.

The promise of software and technology is that they help solve the problems we face right now, without addressing how those problems began—problems including the uneven distribution of basic resources like food.