Modern Living – Page 2 – Garrick van Buren

Adding by Substracting

“…each time I optimize for happiness instead of money, I have accidentally increased my financial returns as well.” – Pete Forde

And I’ve never had anything pierced

“Also, I still haven’t personally found a practical reason for the implant.” – Dan Berg

At least do the food justice

“Chef David Bouley often ushers people he sees snapping his plates back into the kitchen so they can get a picture on a marble background with proper lighting. He’s even working on a system that will allow users to choose from an array of digital images of his dishes that they can send to their friends before they even get their meals.” – Jessica Roy

Everything You Pack Will be Lost

thanks kk

No Sale

I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine founding a company for freedom and control, and then downgrading to a job — a job YOU CAN’T LEAVE. It’s the opposite of everything about the dream of owning your own business. – Amy Hoy

Not an Upgrade

“Each new upgrade brings more suckage into your computer. It makes itself slower. It adds three or four more capabilities you’ll never need.” – Farhad Manjoo

iChindogu

“So this expensive gadget doesn’t solve your real problems, but look how user-friendly it is” – bad_user

“Chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever”

Suddenly, I’m reminded of so many Kickstarter projects.

Time is an Illusion

“The idea was born of a conversation with a friend about how much our wanting to know the time was useful and how much was just an addiction to some bit of knowledge that didn’t help us — something that made us feel better prepared, but didn’t make us any wiser.” – Erik Kennedy

Jim’s Paleo Media Diet

“I just believe that my brain is maladapted to the networked Skinner Box, so I want out. My brain is plastic, but not in a sufficiently adaptive way. In fact it’s probably adapting just fine, but in a fashion that creates a destructive feed forward loop.” – Jim Stogdill

Out

“The Internet is awesome. But it will be awesome tomorrow, too. Get offline one night a week (meaning, from 5pm until you go to sleep don’t touch the Internet in anyway on computer, phone, TV, nothing) and do something you need to get done.” – Colin Devroe