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 ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“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
