"...patterns of attention—what we choose to notice and what we do not—are how we render reality for ourselves, and thus have a different bearing on what we feel is possible at any given time."
– Jenny Odell, 'How to Do Nothing'

"The aspect ratio of our lives has changed. By narrowing our field of view, cutting off our peripheral vision, the phone doesn’t just remove us from space and provoke a sense of claustrophobia. It isolates us."

My favorite kind of nerdiness is looking closely at what has disappeared into normality.