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[Lea Degen @lealeata]

The tables were turned—Applied Divinity Studies asked me some great questions on themes that have occupied a front seat in my mind the past year

[TheBrowser @TheBrowser]

our latest Browser interview is with the excellent @lealeata: on saving San Francisco, privatisation as a downward spiral for cities, the need for autonomy and the importance of tacit knowledge

https://t.co/diJAdfc9Wh

[Nikita S @singareddynm]

Ladies do the last supper in Fort Greene

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

@singareddynm @BobbyThakkar @LukasRosenstock @caseykcaruso @Kristine1ise @Marsnotaplanet I'll take it

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

The same thing applies to physical copies of books and journals: all are focal objects from which to jump off into exchange

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

An interesting drawback of combining 100 tools into a single device is the lost potential for conversation. If I carry my camera a person has a clearly discernible thing to comment on—compare to an iPhone and it starts to appear that by unifying function, we forego serendipity.

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

Freedom ≠ Permissiveness

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

A bit mortifying to consider how many serendipitous encounters you might’ve cut yourself off from, merely through visibly wearing headphones

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

we live in the age of teleological pyramid schemes

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

Your life will be what you paid attention to.

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

why
not
more

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

Fortune Magazine on San Francisco, 1930s

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

The dignity of private lives

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

@Mohamadacma I love this!

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

Who was the last great polymath?

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

@aspiringpeasant Definitely, at the end of the day it has to originate from an intrinsic need… hard to justify for many in an ends-driven contemporary culture

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

Might a lot of people be deterred from writing because its downstream effects are so intangible? You might plant the seeds for a change in someone’s mind three years down the line, when they’re ready for it—but by then, your contribution cannot be legibly discerned

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

What we expect of people shapes what people we get

[Arnaud Schenk @Arnaudschenk]

I wrote a little bit about Becoming, why it's a fundamentally adversarial process, and what I think most university alternatives get wrong: https://t.co/xJO5TBn21w

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

@KTmBoyle @aresnick

[Lea Degen @lealeata]

“It is art that puts a time in place […] The gift the record gives us is a reminder that the big sludgy river of time exists first as moments. It gives us back our afternoons.”