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The goodness of money floats free of any particular evaluations that could engage our attention and energize our activity.

Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.

Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.

The basic design intention guiding Mercedes in the last ten years seems to be that its cars should offer psychic blow jobs to the affluent.

Let me make myself useful.

Architects face this threat, but builders don't.

you can't hammer a nail over the Internet.

Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.

We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for

the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away.

Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.

Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.

Find manual work more engaging intellectually

to a paradox in our experience of agency: to be master of your own stuff entails also being mastered by it.

The rise of "teamwork" has made it difficult to trace individual responsibility,

In what circumstances does the human element remain indispensable, and why?