flâneur

Luke Piette

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  • The people I find beautiful are almost never just attractive people. They are people (and things) that demand attention, effort, thought to be completely understood.
    crushes are often just misplaced ambition - by Isabel
  • The only thing I’m “optimizing for” right now is sincerity and kindness.
    On being a technologist - Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo
  • echnology is firstly, a means to an end, and secondly, a human activity. Technologists, then, are people who are very skilled at finding and implementing the best possible means to the ends they most desire. Technologists are instrumentalists. And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle along on…
    On being a technologist - Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo
  • experience precedes language
    life on oahu - by Justin Wang - for the time being
  • History is the record of top players completing good quests.
    Choose Good Quests - by Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner
  • Religion is a reintroduction to awe - to something beyond us
    On Awe - by Benjamin Laufer - Laufer's thoughts
  • And I’ll just think, really, honestly, how remarkably privileged we are to hang around with such a talented group of people around here. I am constantly reminded of the immense passion and creativity of those with whom I get to spend time everyday.
    Even artichokes have doubts - Yale Daily News
  • “I think the best way to get the skills to work for a non profit is to work for a non profit,” she said. “The answer people give about skills acquisition is very convenient.”
    Even artichokes have doubts - Yale Daily News
  • “Most firms are looking for people who will stay up until 3 a.m. seven nights a week making slides for a partner who goes home to Wellesley for dinner every night at 5 p.m. — and who will do so thinking that they’re ‘winning.’ Look at it this way: most firms assume that you’ll leave for law school or business school within three years, and they invest in your training accordingly. Quality mentoring when you’re young is worth whatever you pay for it. Sometimes that means less money, sometimes that means less of a life beyond work. But quality mentoring is not going to be delivered by someone wh…
    Even artichokes have doubts - Yale Daily News
  • The narrative goes something like this: Eventually, I want to save the world in some way. Right now, the best way for me to do that is to gain essential skills by working in this industry for a few years.
    Even artichokes have doubts - Yale Daily News