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Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.

Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned

As Yuval Noah Harari points out, we already defer to machine wisdom to recommend books and restaurants and potential dates. It’s possible that once corporations realize their earnest ambition to know the customer better than she knows herself, we will accept recommendations on whom to marry, what career to pursue, whom to vote for.

Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Gwyneth Paltrow Looks Back at 15 Years of Goop and More: ‘Don’t Put Me on Truth Serum.’

Marisa Meltzer nytimes.com

beach. A system that existed only because everyone believed they were among people like themselves.

Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)

- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and bou... See more

Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life

The Coming Humanist Renaissance

Adrienne LaFrance theatlantic.com

There’s a pervasive idea, at least among my peers, that [your 30s] should bring about a sense of calm and self-acceptance. We may have dispensed with the precepts surrounding marriage and kids, but there remains a non-specific expectation of “settling in.” Into yourself, into what you want. I took great comfort in this idea when I was in my 20s. I ... See more

Haley Nahman • #110: The Trick of the Epiphany

For ten years, Harvey had devoted his life to what he thought was a place of belonging. Like many of us, I’m sure he could look back with hindsight on the moments in that decade when he ignored warning bells, shirking from his truth in order to be accepted.

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

I believed the perceptions undergirding my sketches arose from my being invisible or at least underestimated, including being mistaken for someone nicer than I was.