“•Be humble before the order you cannot command. •Be sovereign within the walls you can. •Trade with the machines. •Do not hide from them. •Do not become them. •Keep your own clock. •Be playful with each other. •Make warm things with alien matter.”

still digesting, but i like it very much

> Today we need masts of our own: structures and constraints through which to converse with the unfolding technological explosion without being consumed. We need forms and rituals that help us live in communion with others, in the service of human flourishing, with aesthetic sensibilities that survive the machinic assault. Outsourcing everything to machines debases us. Retreating from the world forfeits the magnificence of systems that are becoming too arcane in their complexity for us to comprehend.