Kyla, absolutely love the spirit of this week’s newsletter…seems impossible to head where you are with your work without including your own becoming as part of it. Also, the inclusion of other’s work, tweets, etc, works well too to my read. Bravo!
I work w a company that promotes tech, individualized & remote learning in remote parts of the world as a part of their social good program. we're currently in a rainforest in Colombia. i'm reading a bunch of literature like the link above bc im personally dealing with the moral dilemma of introducing tech into a remote areas. how do we find the balance between tech being a tool to enhance underprivileged communities (& things like preventing the mass exodus of youth from rural communities to the cities looking for jobs/education) and tech (social media, gaming, etc) completely taking over. it would be cool to see them working remotely from their village, providing for their families & investing in their communities but also devastating to see kids go from climbing trees & swimming in rivers to playing fortnite & endlessly scrolling through tiktoks all day.
also reading The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett ... how american society can transition from 'I' culture to 'we' again
I'm reading an old sci-fi (predictive fiction) book from 1975 called "The Shockwave Rider" it's about a computer hacker in a dystopian future that takes place in 2010, been pretty fun noticing many of the sociological impacts of technology predictions being spot on with the effects of social media.
thank you, as always, for injecting massive thoughtfulness into the gnarly financial equation. you are driving your cart outside the boundaries! my go-to author is Stephen Batchelor, "Buddhism Without Beliefs": concise and topical as heck.
Never did I imagine reading an Econ article about Pokémon in my adulthood
Kyla, absolutely love the spirit of this week’s newsletter…seems impossible to head where you are with your work without including your own becoming as part of it. Also, the inclusion of other’s work, tweets, etc, works well too to my read. Bravo!
Absolutely loved this.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/isemss-21/125959779
I work w a company that promotes tech, individualized & remote learning in remote parts of the world as a part of their social good program. we're currently in a rainforest in Colombia. i'm reading a bunch of literature like the link above bc im personally dealing with the moral dilemma of introducing tech into a remote areas. how do we find the balance between tech being a tool to enhance underprivileged communities (& things like preventing the mass exodus of youth from rural communities to the cities looking for jobs/education) and tech (social media, gaming, etc) completely taking over. it would be cool to see them working remotely from their village, providing for their families & investing in their communities but also devastating to see kids go from climbing trees & swimming in rivers to playing fortnite & endlessly scrolling through tiktoks all day.
also reading The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett ... how american society can transition from 'I' culture to 'we' again
Always interesting to read your stuff.
I'm reading an old sci-fi (predictive fiction) book from 1975 called "The Shockwave Rider" it's about a computer hacker in a dystopian future that takes place in 2010, been pretty fun noticing many of the sociological impacts of technology predictions being spot on with the effects of social media.
I ended up downloading several on Henry's books. Which one you'd suggest to start from?
thank you, as always, for injecting massive thoughtfulness into the gnarly financial equation. you are driving your cart outside the boundaries! my go-to author is Stephen Batchelor, "Buddhism Without Beliefs": concise and topical as heck.
Really like this format! Keep it up 👍