Long Read: The Analog City and the Digital City

L. M. Sacasas | 38 minutes

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One way to understand our moment is to recognize that digital technology is reconfiguring the nature of the self that enters into the political arena, even as it restructures the arena itself. The contrast between those who mainly inhabit the Digital City and those who still primarily inhabit the Analog City becomes increasingly stark.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city

Snippets

Never worry about being a small fish in a big pond.
Being a big fish in a small pond sucks—you will hit the ceiling on what you can achieve quickly, and nobody will care.

Optimize at all times for being in the most dynamic and exciting pond you can find.

- Marc Andreessen, Marc Andreessen's Guide to Career Planning

The shortest distance between two points is reliably a straight line. If your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them.
Creating optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your dreamy outcomes. They are dangerous diversions that will change you.

- Mihir A. Desai, The Trouble with Optionality