Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it’s craving for more. Yung Lean Read Quote
All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It’s not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption. Yung Lean Read Quote
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power. Yung Lean Read Quote
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you’re just unable to focus. Yung Lean Read Quote
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. Yung Lean Read Quote
Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value… but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers… and they come, and they tell a very convincing story. Yung Lean Read Quote
There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you’re the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data. Yung Lean Read Quote
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption. Yung Lean Read Quote
I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things. Yung Lean Read Quote
