"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."

- Nothing Personal, James Baldwin

Are the people this place attracts the sort of people I want to spend time with and become more like? Is the system that is in place here one that pushes and cajoles and processes people to become more like the kind of person I’d like to be?

From Ezra Klein:

AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that

The reason that big companies almost always fail when they try to enter new

markets is their willingness to compromise. They figure that because they are

big and powerful, they can settle, do less, stop improving something before it is

truly remarkable. They compromise to avoid offending other divisions or to

minimize their exposure. So they fail. They

Everything is temporary. When a mood is so overwhelming we tend to mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past

— George Orwell, 1984

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.

“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

The rise of AI abusers? https://archive.ph/YIGkB