Reading/thinking

OK, so I think posting a SV story fit with the "retro journaling" idea, but with the start of school I'm clearly not going to be posting every day. Still, here's some stuff I've seen around:

Via giandujakiss, this is a great interview with the editor of Flowers in the Attic. I am also a big My Sweet Audrina fan, if that is the right word.

Kate Losse, The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things:

I write this not just to make the point that “don’t ask for permission” is a starkly, unconsciously raced and classed (and also gendered, in the way that Lean In asks women not to break rules but to lean into them, or the way in which Stanford summer camp doesn’t seem to notice that “don’t ask for permission” is a dangerously rapey lesson to teach young men) motto for Silicon Valley, though there is that.

It’s also to note that a young man and his friends are being schooled in this privilege from boyhood by institutions that have all of the intellectual and financial resources available to widen the scope of instruction and teach them more than just how to successfully trespass the few boundaries they encounter. By teaching primarily young white men to unreflectively “break things” and reward them when they do, Stanford and other Silicon Valley institutions like YCombinator are incubators not for any kind of social change or “disruption” but for the assignment of privilege to the people who are most likely to already have it.

Joseph William Singer, Titles of Nobility: Poverty, Immigration & Property in a Free & Democratic Society:
( what has government done for me? what has it done to me? )

( and a book on how we think )