“paying in Bitcoin could be more convenient than converting to local currency while traveling abroad”
“Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he made himself live without it”
“Airbnb indulges the fantasy that we might temporarily inhabit another life”
“after about a year of usefulness, Yelp very quickly became a terrible source of information”
“Apparently no one has ever sent Nicholas Carr or Sherry Turkle a tastefully brief Snapchat”
“no one remembers what YOLO meant“
“It was a dazzling taste of something I’d previously seen only in science-fiction movies”
“Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives”
“To deny the indulgence of verification is a small gesture which holds religious meaning to me”
“After several minutes, I looked out my third-story window to see a drone hovering a few feet away”
“what’s going on with gender, the gendering of various self-tracking practices, and Quantified Self?”
“You don’t get a real sense of personal, individual self until the end of the 19th century”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com].
