

ongoing by Tim Bray · Just Too Efficient
My Blog is a Whole Grab-bag of Weird
Creating is better than consuming. Giving is better than selling.
In 1988, Wendell Berry shocked the world by declaring that he was not going to buy a computer. Three decades later, he hasn’t looked back.
Three decades after publishing his controversial 1988 essay “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” in Harper’s Magazine, Mr. Berry still doesn’t own one. He doesn’t have a smartphone either.
Somewhere between running errands to go to my last day of shooting the movie and getting to Chickasaw, I lost my phone. When I got back int...
The start of my journey with a brick-phone.
(I only get on social media on an actual computer (chromebook) with a keyboard and everything)