“Living in Venice is like living at the end of the world, the end of history. All the decisions have been made. This is the world we get.”

Moxie Marlinspike, in a profile by Anna Wiener in The New Yorker. If you want more words by Moxie, might I recommend his story of how he almost died of hypothermia while sailing, and his 2012 blog post “The Worst.”