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great ideas on how to absorb books

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. - CEO 3M

Triumph of the City

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In every pairwise conversation
there are 6 people:
1. Alice
2. Bob
3. Who Alice thinks she is.
4. Who Bob thinks he is.
5. Who Bob thinks Alice is
6. Who Alice things Bob is.

This is where labour-saving devices may also play a role in children's development. The researchers have discovered that certain appliances free up parental time or make it easier to do two jobs at once.

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over the past few decades, people have lost a sense of their own sinfulness. Children are raised amid a chorus of applause.

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

The problem with a high vantage point is that you can't see the details, and if you stand there long enough you begin to believe that the details don't matter. But the details do matter. The texture of our lives is determined not only by what we do but by how we do it. And that's where media play such an important part: they change the how. Which is what Poe misses. Just as the dishwasher (along with the washing machine, the vacuum cleaner, and all manner of other electrified household appliance) altered in profound ways the rhythms and roles of home life during the last century, so the internet changes, in ways small and large, everything it subsumes. The same shit, when routed through a different medium, becomes new shit.