We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

2013-0418

We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

John Culkin

Culkin, John M. “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan.” The Saturday Review, 18 Mar. 1967, p. 70.
Commonly attributed to McLuhan, but written by Culkin, Most likely based on an idea originating from McLuhan. More here.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Wikipedia
John M. Culkin, Jr. (1928–1993), Wikipedia

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2023-1230

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only from one row of the keyboard.

Unknown

Found: Random-facts-from-the-internet.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …

2023-1216

That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin

1700s · American · Boston · innovation · Inventor · patents · Philadelphia · polymath · Printer · Scientist · Statesman · Writer

Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …

2023-1205

Best advice I’ve ever received as a writer? Write.

Norman Lear

1900s · 2000s · American · funny · humor · Writer

From an interview with the late, great Larry King. Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience: “All in the Family” “Maude” “Good Times” “The Jeffersons” “Sanford and Son” …

2023-1204

ChatGPT wrote this quotation for me. Just joking. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know…

Unknown

2000s · generative ai · trust

…I suppose that’s the problem.

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