To live fully, we must be occasionally reminded that we, and those around us, will not live forever.
Venkatesh Rao on the meditative virtues of power outages for (my words). I’m not entirely convinced by the final section suggesting information technology is a new kind of illumination with its own kind of sunlight/electricity (work/life) balance. But I do yearn for the enforced stillness I experienced during blackouts while briefly living in Costa Rica.
