Stand Out of Our Light

Stand Out of Our Light

As digital technologies have made information abundant, our attention has become the scarce resource – and in the digital “attention economy,” technologies compete to capture and exploit our mere attention, rather than supporting the true goals we have for our lives....
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Man is unique insofar as he constitutes two events. The event of his biological organism – and, in this, he is like tortoise and hare – and the event of his consciousness. Thus in man two times coexist, corresponding with these two events. The time during...
America

America

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...
Bill Bernbach’s resignation letter

Bill Bernbach’s resignation letter

May 15, 1947 Dear __: Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship...