Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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Widespread complaints that time is accelerating trace not to actual velocity but to a collapse in memory formation: routine, screen-mediated days generate fewer distinct memories, so retrospectively the months compress.
Inga Clendinnen's 1991 study of the Aztec empire argues that mass human sacrifice was not peripheral religious custom but the organizing principle of Mexica civilization, woven bureaucratically into daily life, art, warfare, and cosmology itself.
Alright, that’s all I got. Things are weird. Play with the weirdness. These tools are powerful and getting more powerful by the day. The valuations today seem irrational; the use-potential is not. Markets don’t know how to price our (rapidly approaching) future.
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