“Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; but it’s not a way of solving a problem.”
“If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed it? I wanted the answer to be yes - knew it to be - but, somehow, incredibly, I didn’t always believe it. I let the impulse crash over me, hating it, and ignored the twitch for my phone.”
— The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚
Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic:
“The acceptance and fellowship that online communities bring, be they subreddits and Facebook groups or anonymous message boards, allow grievance to harden into a full-fledged identity.”
Viewpoint + Community = Identity
A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994.
Sure, the fashions date them — but the sheer absence of phones is what really leaps out at me.
