Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen instead to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have... See more
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness
"To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.
No matter how busy you think you are, you can carve time and space to think out of your workday. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, schedules up to two... See more
No matter how busy you think you are, you can carve time and space to think out of your workday. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, schedules up to two... See more
The Wrap-Up
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
Something fundamental in our culture has ended. What exactly, I can’t quite put my finger on. As many things in the liminal, it’s hard to grasp. But if we want to birth something new out of it, we have to come to terms with endings. We have to come to terms with the ultimate ending, the very thing Covid-19 forces us to look at: our inevitable... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jeremy-gordontheguardian.comPeople underestimate how big crypto will be, but overestimate how fast we will get there.
Investing
In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
