Someone tweeted how fortunate we are to have Hubert Dreyfus’s lectures available online. I was already trying to understand Heidegger better and was glad to discover Dreyfus.
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Heidegger was an early product thinker
I am watching Hubert Dreyfus’s lecture on Heidegger and Being and Time, where he describes two modes of being for objects. 1. Readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit): When tools are ready-to-hand, they smoothly integrate …
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Why go down the rabbit hole
Jenny Odell writes in How to Do Nothing: So why go down the rabbit hole? First and most basically, it is enjoyable. Curiosity, something we know most of all from childhood, is a forward-driving force that derives …
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Carrying a camera to pause more often
I was reading Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time, and in the essay The Scent of Oak Wood he articulated something I had been feeling for some time. He argued that our time is defined by an acceleration of events, …