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4/19/2023
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234 / The end of aesthetic individualism?
I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand. – Ettore Sottsass Featured artist: Erica Jacobson Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
4/11/2023
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233 / The messiness of democratic progress
You can't justify a bridge by counting the number of people swimming across a river. – Brent Toderian Featured artist: Sam Peet Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 233! View/share
4/4/2023
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232 / The transformational experience of being time rich
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. – David Viscott Featured artist: Marina Esmeraldo Dense Discovery Dense
3/27/2023
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231 / Switching from consumption to connection
One should always be curious. Not a passive curiosity dependent upon information received, but an aggressive curiosity that compels one to seek things out and ascertain them for oneself. – Issey Miyake
3/20/2023
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230 / How stupidly big cars make everything worse
In matters of style swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson Featured artist: Andreu Zaragoza Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 230! View/
3/13/2023
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229 / Getting personal with Friends of DD
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. – Serge Daney Featured artist: Arina Kokoreva Dense Discovery Dense
3/6/2023
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228 / Ecovillages as a template for a regenerative way of life?
I'm not interested in whether the glass is half empty or half full. I'm interested in figuring out how to fill the glass. – Donal Kaberuka Featured artist: Ryan Swierczek Dense Discovery Dense
2/27/2023
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227 / The return to human-scale architecture?
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. – Greg McKeown Featured artist: Magdalena Koźlicka Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 227! View/share online → I'm
2/20/2023
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226 / Travelling with the English language bonus
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space. The rest is opinion. – Democritus Featured artist: Augusto Zambonato Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 226! View/share online → In the next
2/14/2023
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225 / Contemplating natural limits and boundaries
The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty. – James Clear Featured artist: Liubov Dronova Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
2/6/2023
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224 / ‘What would happen if I do nothing?’
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. – Francis Chan Featured artist: Jordan Kay Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
2/1/2023
20 : 34
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1/30/2023
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223 / Seeking solidarity with Gunda the pig
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. – Mr Rogers Featured artist:
1/23/2023
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222 / The non-stop struggle to look ‘normal’
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. – Anthony Jay Featured artist: Bruno Perrier Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 222!
1/20/2023
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221 / ‘Being nice’ as a form of oppression
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. – Heraclitus Featured artist: Ironmould Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 221! View/share online → Many of us think '
1/9/2023
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220 / No more elections: democracy by lottery
The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others. – Alain de Botton Featured artist: Julia Zinchenko Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
12/19/2022
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219 / Ending 2022 with a stadium full of DD readers
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy. – Seneca Featured artist:
12/12/2022
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218 / Where to channel our climate protest outrage
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel Featured artist: Juan Er Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
12/5/2022
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217 / Alternatives to Retail Christmas
A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong. – Neil deGrasse Tyson Featured artist: Coen Pohl Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome
11/28/2022
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216 / Every job can be a climate job
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. – Marcel Proust Featured artist: Ozcar Aguilar Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to