Quotes
On the world before the Internet
“We were lucky; so, so lucky. We didn’t have the whole world at our fingertips, at the tap of a screen, so we had to focus on the world around us, and on the world in our heads.” –
Christina Patterson
On Technology
“One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.” – Joshua Foer
On Social Media
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve FurtickOn the salience of video and pictures
“We've been reading words for several hundred years, listening to words for thousands, and learning from images for millions of years. We, as a species, are great with images. We can interpret / absorb an image 50x faster than words, as we've had a lot more practice with visuals. Just as music is cemented into our being in the late teen years, the images of our early childhood become fixed into our gray matter.” –- Scott Galloway
Research
Videos