a lot of what passes for providing therapeutic support is actually providing esteem—some kind of status-type proof of work

a couple times a week i make an interface that looks so clean that i don’t realize it doesn’t make sense. like a magician falling victim to my own tricks.

ive started to get really angry when amazon misses their delivery dates … partly because it feels like they’re consistently overpromising, but maybe also for other reasons

through self-involvement and self-promotion, they accidentally created a prosopography of the navel-gazing classes

san francisco’s complete lack of libidinal energy and tension is significant, important

the most important thing about SF right now is that its finally learning it has a need for theories of art and theories of history: this would in theory be a moment where new york has some capacity to produce imports, but they’ve gone galapagos. nobody cares about Marx on the west coast, but what that means is that there’s an opening, that it’s the only place where you can be Marx

the most important rule about silicon valley is that if you’re a little crazy, you have to be totally earnest about it. in the rest of the world, you’re expected to be jokey and wacky and funny, but in silicon valley if you’re a little out there it’s something you have to treat as dead normal.