https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2025-12-18T19:00:30+00:00 https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/ robertogreco jimmywu 2025 arionpress kernelmagazine asteriskmagazine jasminesun omidyarnetwork publishing sanfrancisco pierreomidyar ebay marcatuscenter libertarianism claracollier effectivealtruism sambankman-fried dustinmoskovitz coefficientgiving meta asaana openphilanthropy agi artificialgeneralintelligence rationalism samoburja palladium karlmarx marxism peterthiel paypal paypalmafia palantir antichrist jonahbennett leverage research wolftivy democracy monarchism iq eugenics neoreactionaries reactionaries freedomcity curtisyarvin donaldtrump trumpism maga jdvance greatfoundertheory darkenlightenment grimes benlandau-taylor marcandreessen vitalikbuterin vc venturecapital siliconvalley bayarea google labor work logicmagazine landlords tenants amazon zaitoonzafar asimovpress maxmeyer anduril china arena fascism 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aliexpress pebblely textgeneration genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac5fb06c5427/ 2023-06-07T17:10:26+00:00 https://jomc.substack.com/p/murder-by-bookcase robertogreco joannemcneil 2023 ebay thriftstore internet prices thrifting shopping clothing fashion fastfashion reselling goodwill auctions poshmark mercari christopherhitchens bookcases books bookshelves sophiaamoruso storage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4edd20958e1d/ 2021-12-25T05:53:23+00:00 https://www.ebay.com/sch/kytwatches123/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= robertogreco bulova accutron watches shopping used ebay tuningfork electronic 1950s 1960s 1970s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:18247653a362/ 2019-08-10T00:29:06+00:00 http://www.watchpaper.com/2015/07/16/william-gibson-on-watches/ robertogrecoPeople who’ve read this piece often assume that I subsequently became a collector of watches. I didn’t, at least not in my own view. Collections of things, and their collectors, have generally tended to give me the willies. I sometimes, usually only temporarily, accumulate things in some one category, but the real pursuit is in the learning curve. The dive into esoterica. The quest for expertise. This one lasted, in its purest form, for five or six years. None of the eBay purchases documented [in the essay] proved to be “keepers.” Not even close. Undaunted by his placing this interest squarely in the past, something he got over, I wanted to find out what had survived, physically or intellectually, of his obsession. It turns out, quite a lot. We corresponded via email and William Gibson shared his thoughts on collecting, how he got started, what “keepers” remain in his collection and why. We also talked about the Apple watch and what it means for traditional horology.” ... "If “old” people, as you mentioned in our recent discussion, are concerned that what they’ve collected will be unwanted, how is that anxiety being manifested? Some watch brands like Patek Philippe use durability, inheritance and legacy as their explicit identity. I was thinking of someone with dozens of rare military watches. Even if they have children, will the children want their watches? It could be difficult finding the right museum to donate them to, in order to keep the collection intact. I think Patek’s appeal to inheritance and legacy still has some basis, though the wristwatch itself has become a piece of archaic (though still functional) jewelry. You don’t absolutely need one. You do, probably, absolutely need your smartphone, and it also tells the time. Eventually, I assume, virtually everything will also tell the time. Is there something authentic in collecting we as humans are striving for? What does the impulse represent for you? I actively enjoy having fewer, preferably better things. So I never deliberately accumulated watches, except as the temporary by-product of a learning curve, as I searched for my own understanding of watches, and for the ones I’d turn out to particularly like. I wanted an education, rather than a collection. But there’s always a residuum: the keepers. (And editing is as satisfying as acquiring, for me.) Do you think there’s anything intrinsic to watches (their aesthetics, engineering etc.) that make them especially susceptible to our interest? Mechanical timekeeping devices were among our first complex machines, and became our first ubiquitous complex machines, and the first to be miniaturized. Mechanical wristwatches were utterly commonplace for less than a century. Today, there’s no specific need for a mechanical watch, unless you’re worried about timekeeping in the wake of an Electromagnetic Pulse attack. So we have heritage devices, increasingly archaic in the singularity of their function, their lack of connectivity. But it was exactly that lack that once made them heroic: they kept telling accurate time, regardless of what was going on around them. They were accurate because they were unconnected, unitary. How do you think the notion of collecting has changed since your preoccupation with watches played itself out? Scarcity (but not true rarity) barely exists any more. The Internet makes it increasingly easy to assemble a big pile of any category of objects, but has also rationalized the market in every sort of rarity. There’s more stuff, and fewer random treasures. When I discovered military watches, I could see that that was already happening to them, but that there was still a window for informed acquisition. That’s mostly closed now. The world’s attic is now that much more thoroughly sorted and priced!"]]> watches williamgibson ebay horology fashion collecting collections learning howwelearn 2015 esoterica research researching deepdives expertise obsessions cv immersion posterity legacy analog mechanical durability longevity inheritance jewelery smartphones understanding education self-directed self-directedlearning timekeeping connectivity scarcity objects possessions ownership quality internet web online wristwatches things applewatch pebble pebblewatch smartwatches watchcollecting canon watchcanon rolex rolexexplorer 1016explorer oris jaeger-lecoultre tamagotchi tamagotchigesture grandseiko georgebamford mods modding watchmods benrus quartz springdrive jamesdowling hyunsukseung beams rolexsubmariner ministryofdefense omega obsession watchcollections obessions watchmodding gadawatches haq highaccuracyquartz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f47fdaec8d3c/ 2017-06-04T01:53:44+00:00 http://davidbyrne.com/journal/eliminating-the-human robertogreco davidbyrne 2017 automation ai business culture technology dehumanization humanism humanity gigeconomy labor work robots moocs socialmedia google facebook amazon yuvalharari social productivity economics society vr ebay retail virtualreality yuvalnoahharari artificialintelligence mooc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b16d6c6c23c0/ 2016-04-20T03:57:58+00:00 https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.r614k19f4 robertogrecoWhat the drive-in was to teens in the 1950s and the mall was in the 1980s, Facebook, texting, Twitter, instant messaging, and other social media are to teens now. I cannot shake the sentence, which seems to contain between its simple words a secret key, a cipher to crack my inquiries into technology and change. Napoleon didn’t have a drive-in in the 1950s, or a mall in the 1980s, but today it definitely has the same social communications tools used by every kid in the country. By that fact alone, the lives of teenagers in Napoleon must be wildly different than they were 20 years ago. But I lack the social research finesse of Boyd, who could probably interrogate my thesis about technology beyond anecdote. So I change the topic to something I know much better: television." … "Whether with sanguine fondness or sallow regret, all writers remember their first publishing experience — that moment when an unseen audience of undifferentiated proportion absorbs their words from unknown locales. I remember my first three. Napoleon had no school newspaper, and minimal access to outside media, so I had no conception of “the publishing process.” Pitching an idea, assigning a story, editing and rewriting — all of that would have baffled me. I had only ever seen a couple of newspapers and a handful of magazines, and none offered a window into its production. (If asked, I would have been unsure if writers were even paid, which now seems prescient.) Without training or access, but a vague desire to participate, boredom would prove my only edge. While listlessly paging through the same few magazines over and over, I eventually discovered a semi-concealed backdoor for sneaking words onto the hallowed pages of print publications: user-generated content. That’s the ghastly term we use (or avoid using) today for non-professional writing submitted by readers. What was once a letter to the editor has become a comment; editorials, now posts. The basic unit persists, but the quantity and facility have matured. Unlike that conspicuous “What’s on your mind?” input box atop Facebook, newspapers and magazines concealed interaction with readers, reluctant of the opinions of randos. But if you were diligent enough to find the mailing address, often sequestered deep in the back pages, you could submit letters of opinion and other ephemera. This was publishing to me. My collected works were UGC." … "“What are your favorite apps?” This time my corny question is fielded by Katelyn, another student who my mother suggests will make a good subject for my harebrained experiment. During her study hall break, we discuss the hectic life of a millennial teenager on the plains. She is already taking college-level courses, lettering in three varsity sports, and the president of the local FFA chapter. (That’s Future Farmers of America, an agricultural youth organization with highly competitive livestock judging and grain grading contests. It’s actually a huge deal in deep rural America, bigger than the Boy and Girl Scouts. Katelyn won the state competition in Farm Business Management category.) To the app question, she recites the universals of any contemporary young woman: Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest. She mentions The Skimm as a daily news source, which is intriguing, but not as provocative as her next remark: “I don’t have Facebook.” Whoa, why? “My parents don’t support social media,” says the 18-year-old. “They didn’t want me to get Facebook when I was younger, so I just never signed up.” This is closer to the isolationist Napoleon that I remember. They might not ban books anymore, but parents can still be very protective. “How do you survive without Facebook?” I ask. “Do you wish you had it?” “I go back and forth,” she avers. “It would be easier to connect with people I’ve met through FFA and sports. But I’m also glad I don’t have it, because it’s time-consuming and there’s drama over it.” She talks like a 35-year-old. So I ask who she will vote for. “I’m not sure. I like how Bernie Sanders is sounding.” I tell her a story about a moment in my junior civics class where the teacher asked everyone who was Republican to raise their hand. Twenty-five kids lifted their palms to the sky. The remaining two students called themselves Independents. “My school either had zero Democrats or a few closeted ones,” I conclude. She is indifferent to my anecdote, so I change the topic to music. “I listen to older country,” she says. “Garth Brooks, George Strait.” The term “older country” amuses me, but I resist the urge to ask her opinion of Jimmie Rodgers. “I’m not a big fan of hardcore rap or heavy metal,” she continues. “I don’t understand heavy metal. I don’t know why you would want to listen to it.” So no interest in driving three hours in the snow to see AC/DC at the Fargodome last night? “No, I just watched a couple Snapchat stories of it.” Of course she did. While we talk, a scratchy announcement is broadcast over the school-wide intercom. A raffle drawing ticket is being randomly selected. I hear Jaden’s name announced as the winner of the gigantic teddy bear in my mother’s office. I ask Katelyn what novel she read as a sophomore, the class year that The Catcher in the Rye was banned from my school. When she says Fahrenheit 451, I feel like the universe has realigned for me in some cosmic perfection. But my time is running out, and again I begin to wonder whether she is proving or disproving my theories of media and technology. It’s difficult to compare her life to mine at that age. Katelyn is undoubtedly more focused and mature than any teenager I knew in the ’80s, but this is the stereotype of all millennials today. Despite her many accomplishments, she seems to suppress the hallmark characteristic of her ambitious generation: fanatic self-regard. Finally, I ask her what she thinks her life will be like in 25 years. “I hope I’ll be married, and probably have kids,” she says decisively. “I see myself in a rural area. Maybe a little bit closer to Bismarck or Fargo. But I’m definitely in North Dakota.” I tell her that Jaden gave essentially the same answer to the question. Why do you think that is? “The sense of a small community,” she says, using that word again. “Everyone knows each other. It’s a big family.”"]]> internet technology rexsorgatz 2016 isolation cv web online culture distraction media film music quietude publishing writing worldliness rural howwelive thenandnow change community smalltowns schools education journalism books censorship fahrenheit451 raybradbury thecatcherintherye jdsalinger newspapers communication socialmedia snapchat facebook instagram pinterest theskimm news danahboyd youtube ebay yahoo twitter videogames gaming subcultures netflix teens youth connectivity childhood college universities highered highereducation midwest television tv cable cabletv cosmopolitanism urban urbanism interneturbanism 1980s northdakota homogeneity diversity apclasses aps religion ethnicity race exposure https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3896b3f4e231/ 2013-01-30T22:37:08+00:00 http://hilobrow.com/2013/01/29/resistant-objects/ robertogreco matthewbattles objects 2013 museums withdrawal foucault darkmatter meaning context collections knowledge stories storytelling auras resistantobjects ebay tupilaq lowellgeorge corbis interpretation interpretableobjects figurines sculpture sociability northwestterritories migueltamen michelfoucault https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a38dcc45d49/ 2012-07-13T01:59:06+00:00 http://anti-mega.com/antimega/2012/07/11/to-be-real robertogreco hownotto howto socialmedia personalization depersonalization twitter firstdirect people vimeo 37signals iceland nokia ebay newspaperclub kickstarter upcoming del.icio.us flickr personality providence history business branding storytelling heritage moleskine sweden curatorsofsweden bookdepositorylive tumblr generalelectric net-a-porterlive enoughproject theyesmen facebook spambots brompton bromptonbicycles hiutdenim historytag @sweden douglasrushkoff google dopplr copywriting webdesign craft social spam russelldavies online web internet administration management howwework chrisheathcote 2012 authenticity trust nextberlin nextberlin2012 webdev ge https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84d18cfa4ab3/ 2012-04-04T16:35:41+00:00 http://www.metafilter.com/65284/Collect-em-all#1862024 robertogreco craigslist amazon access ownership distributedownership onlinewarehousing 2007 materialism justintimepossessions justintime simplicity travellight postmaterialism postconsumerism via:frankchimero ebay metafilter possessions https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1b00a02fe784/ 2012-02-15T02:58:20+00:00 http://designswarm.com/blog/2012/02/unexportables/ robertogreco ebay amazon transferability nontransferable transference postnational homogeneity experienceasproduct anti-consumption experience uniqueness travel globalization 2012 kevinslavin digitalnow now place nomadism nomads neo-nomads identity via:preoccupations food luxury https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a86b86b2e7a/ 2010-06-03T07:13:59+00:00 http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/05/17/the_shop_i_want.html robertogreco consumerism ikea google twitter sales shopping internet marketing materialism ecommerce ebay curation consumption experience relationships trust joelspolsky 2010 surprise delight https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa09b674e5da/ 2009-07-11T03:49:26+00:00 http://significantobjects.com/ robertogreco writing narrative storytelling ebay objects design art significantobjects significance meaning literature projects tcsnmy classideas srg https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d724e0c16986/ 2007-11-30T06:29:00+00:00 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ebay_etsy_dawanda_lovli.php robertogreco handmade marketing glvo business online shopping products ecommerce design art etsy crafts ebay https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3d39568ab32/ 2007-11-19T22:23:10+00:00 http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071119_822069.htm robertogreco children youth technology overload society human limits interaction analog us uk canada retro online internet web ebay simplicity slow https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:562ca24149d3/ 2007-08-07T21:01:30+00:00 http://misspelledauctions.com/ robertogreco ebay search tips tools reference shopping https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8eadcfc52820/ 2007-07-18T06:10:27+00:00 http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p13s02-wmgn.html robertogreco ebay auctions behavior online shopping economics psychology https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:caf94d7b62eb/