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this is a MESH network

[...] "This is a MESH network, it's completely decentralised. Instead of connecting to a router or a central server to access it, you connect directly to other Flex users over Bluetooth, and through them to everybody else on the network. It's very localised - in order to connect you have to be with…

—p.76 Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
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you gotta get the app now

'"Never. We ain't never bringing them back. That's it, man. New system, no need for these old machines. They redundant."

"But I just brought these all the way over from Brooklyn ... How am I going to get my money for them? I need some cash! There's like two hundred bucks here!"

"No cash," the…

—p.58 by Tim Maughan
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the world can’t give that serenity

[...] I said that I was all over the place, up and down, scattered, high, withdrawing, lost, and in the midst of it all trying to find some elusive sense of serenity. "The world can’t give that serenity," he said. "The world can’t give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts."

"I hate that,"…

—p.221 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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if you’re not enough before the gold medal advice/living advice/writing

All that I know about the relationship between publication and mental health was summed up in one line of the movie Cool Runnings, which is about the first Jamaican bobsled team. The coach is a four-hundred-pound man who had won a gold in Olympic bobsledding twenty years before but has been a compl…

—p.218 by Anne Lamott
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what the writer has to offer advice/writing

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of almost everyone with whom I come into contact as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world’s an orphan’s home." And this feels more true t…

—p.204 by Anne Lamott