A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki

don’t think it was helping him find the meaning of life, but at least it gave him a concrete goal, which counts for something. I believe it doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it?

Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention?

This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as though some force was at once goading her and holding her back. How to describe it? A temporal stuttering, an urgent lassitude, a feeling of simultaneous rushing and lagging behind.

“To philosophize is to learn to die.”

Montaigne wrote that death itself is nothing. It is only the fear of death that makes death seem important.

“The Internet’s a toilet bowl.