Mysteries of Thoreau, Unsolved
On dirty laundry and the meaning of freedom.
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On dirty laundry and the meaning of freedom.
Rebecca Solnit Orion May 2013 Permalink
On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.
Maciej Cegłowski Pinboard Sep 2013 Permalink
The real Henry David Thoreau.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Oct 2015 25min Permalink
The authors spend time in Concord, Mass., with people who impersonate Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Eric Pomerance, Laurie Gwen Shapiro Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2013 35min Permalink
Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard. He writes at Idle Words.
“My natural contrarianism makes me want to see if I can do something long-term in an industry where everything either changes until it's unrecognizable or gets sold or collapses. I like the idea of things on the web being persistent. And more basically, I reject this idea that everything has to be on a really short time scale just because it involves technology. We’ve had these computers around for a while now. It’s time we start treating them like everything else in our lives, where it kind of lives on the same time scale that we do and doesn’t completely fall off the end of the world every three or four years.”
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