One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
~ Franz Kafka
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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
~ Franz Kafka
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As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ Franz Kafka
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
~ Franz Kafka
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
~ Franz Kafka
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If we have only so much attention to give, and only so much time on this earth, we might want to think about reinfusing our attention and our communication with the intention that both deserve.
~ Jenny Odell
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We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.
~ Jenny Odell
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Simple awareness is the seed of responsibility.
~ Jenny Odell
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I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out.
~ Jenny Odell
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