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on making an effort
i wrote a small note after biking: water tastes incredibly sweet after effort, and biology feels beautiful when it is experienced rather than only read about. tiny, bodily, and true.
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Personal essays and thought pieces by SWAMOKWISTALLO about culture, technology, attention, and modern life.
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on how luck has somewhere to land
i found myself oddly inspired by something I do not fully agree with. this piece is about that tension, and about a bigger idea underneath it: a lot of us are not stuck because we lack insight, we are stuck because we are scared to look stupid
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on hardware, sadness, and hopium
I wrote about why "social = media bad" is too shallow. The deeper problem might be the hardware itself. The phone trains passivity before any app even opens, and culture has been living downstream of that for years. Also, why I still have hopium for new hardware and the feeling that something might shift.
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two things a future generation will not understand about us
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hard to imagine a future
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some of my thoughts on the future
the world is reorganising around four chokepoints: intelligence, money, energy, and infrastructure. whoever owns the chokepoint owns the person downstream of it. the bet is that each can be loosened. NOT abolished. loosened.
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get quiet enough to hear your own life again
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