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the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e
The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered
TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth
“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
“we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom”
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness , as compared to encount
it's weird that at a given age, 45 say, someone can't just write down the compressed/compiled topline notes on everything they've learned about life,
It also aligned the computer with something that is often inspiring to many people and artists: nature. If I can find the sublime in microchips and SD
Sometimes, You Have To Say No To Your Friends To Say Yes To Your Work When asked, Lin-Manuel Miranda says Wait For It is the best song he’s ever writ
when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.
i've noticed a weird aversion to using AI on the left. not sure if it's a climate or an IP thing or what, but it seems like a massive self-own to dedu
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a
If you believe Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he was “homophobic” and “transphobic”, are you going to be morally consistent, and also celebrate
A lot of people believe they’re “principled” when they’re actually just rigid. And the rigidity is making them boring as fuck.And I don’t mean boring
What’s more, another study establishes that knowing that their parents value kindness above achievement protects kids’ well-being.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea
Three Reasons to Be a Parent
A trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not
This is silly simplified but people who work in “Brand” are typically valued for their taste and ability to forecast and predict trends. They see the
One of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane,
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected Sogyal Rinpoje
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico García Lorca)
When I interviewed Andrea Gibson last year, they shared a line that they loved from a poem by Saul Williams: “only believers in death will die.” When
The promise of artificial superintelligence is based on the idea that objective intelligence is the only intelligence. Or, even if there are multiple
the apparently hard problems (chess, calculus) turned out to be computationally easy, while the apparently easy ones (recognizing a face, walking acro
“smart” people are stupid in more complicated ways
