Life on shuffle

… or the importance of being pleasantly surprised! Since Apple introduced the ingenious Shuffle button, enabling mp3 players to mix up tracks from your downloaded choice of music, rather than following an obvious pattern such as listening to the whole album, or many songs by the same artist, or the same genre, my experience of listening [...]

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Choice in the time of plenty…

It struck me recently, while debating a personal choice I’m facing, how much our choice-related mechanisms are stuck in the era of dearth: dearth of options, dearth of resources, dearth of opportunities…  And while I acknowledge that dearth is still a daily condition for many in this world, many others still have long moved away [...]

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