July 2009
2 posts
“[A modern economist] is used to measuring the ’standard of living’ by the amount...”
– E.F. Schumacher, an underappreciated economist (via SiftStar). Of note: the consumptive black hole toward which we’re trending turbulently. Currently doing some reading on alternatives to the ideal of constant, logarithmic growth. Anyone have suggestions?
“How do you make things?
You could lay out the process as a line… start...”
– As in iterating constantly rather than releasing perfected final products. From Snarkmarket’s collection of essays New Liberal Arts (a laundry list of topics for contemporary study inspired by Kottke’s term ‘liberal arts 2.0’).