Abhishek Damania

Without curiosity or critical thinking, we become vulnerable to manipulation, susceptible to polarizing narratives, and ultimately lose the ability to make independent judgments, which is really important for democratic citizenship.

Care is about intention, patience, and impact. It’s the opposite of scalability; scalability is when you don’t care , when you think that the same user experience should be applied to everyone on earth.

But I think it speaks to something much deeper. There has been a deep hollowing out of soul in technology. And I think the reason this conversation has resonated so deeply, is because it gives them a type of permission to be soulful again with their work RIGHT WHEN ai is creating an anxiety of what the individual brings into their work process.

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To find ease, we must embrace the uncertainty that comes with unexpected/scary/big feelings when we engage in actions with unpredictable outcomes. Human beings are afraid of uncertainty because we are usually not interested in the truth – we’re interested in the elimination of uncertainty, and that fact alone causes us to believe things and do thin... See more

Resistance to anything – emotions, needs, hobbies, curiosities, feelings, impulses – prevents our mind from learning about their consequences. So we do the things we think we should be doing. This thing, whatever it is, takes a path of resistance with immense friction (and not the kind that shows us our edges).

"Things that aren't doing the thing:

• Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.


• Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.


• Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.


• Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.


• Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing.


• Writing a b

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