We’ve been maximizing efficiency for so long, it’s hard to remember the slowness of our past lives.
[…] be attentive to the time and the agency that is all around us, not in the 24 hours that we supposedly have
Why would you ever want to learn more about the world? Would it be for money, fame, power? Why not for something a little bit simpler, like the love of those surrounding you?
Love is never efficient. Love is, by nature, touchy in its messiness. It is the job of the one receiving it to handle the imperfections and the objections that come with such real emotion. In being human, we accept the challenge of enduring these barriers and showing the world what we are made out of. To be made out of flesh, after all, is to be vulnerable to the spikes and merry blades that come with the christmas wars.
I assume the “Sillicon Valleyness” of this hyper-efficiency trend has painted a bad look for technology in my brain. It is okay. I do not believe technology is truly to be held as this evil forever-optimizer that will come for all the jobs and produce much more than this planet can offer to the human race.
Much to the opposite point, I believe technology empowers people to fight systems that were designed to oppress them. In trying to change what is systemically imperfect, we can employ the massive-scale imperfection of networked systems to organize and move what was once thought immovable.
And although I do agree with the anticapitalist message spread by many of my woke netizen comrades, I would rather see our attention pointed toward real change and loud noise. Instead of arguing about the inneficiencies of Markdown (like one by the name of Henry Ford could), let us use the quirks of this imperfect format to communicate and produce blog posts criticizing systemic innequality and untrustworthy corporations. We don’t need to make things perfect, but I sure do hope we can still make them better.
Last Update: 2026/07/16