Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth.… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share
“The Valley might not actually make much in the way of tangible goods, but like industrial centers before it, it’s the place where the… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share
“Tom and I help in common the hope that there might be a geographical ticket out of the problems of indecision, boredom, and the… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“The experiences of wanting less, needing less, and giving more allow us to withdraw from the psychic conflicts that cause so much pain for… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“The main problem with desires...is that they're not nearly as authoritative as we wish they were...How can you find some structure that allows you… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“I wondered...if the difference between people who believed in preparation and those who believed in proof...wasn't the difference between those who worked constantly for… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“As rivers flow into the sea and so lose name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-Luminous, the Infinite.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“San Francisco was full of people walking around with their pockets stuffed with 1.2 percent of nothing.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“breaks from the ordered configurations of everyday life...'anti-structures.' The chief characteristic of the anti-structure...is...'communitas' - a spontaneous, rich, classless, nonhierarchical association of people who… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“Anything we have chosen to do invites the specters of all that we haven't chosen - this is the real mystery of choice.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
