Andrew McCluskey
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Andrew McCluskey
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Life, put simply, is all about status. I recently read W. David Marx’s book Status and Culture —thanks Bryce Ferguson for the rec—and that fact was my clear takeaway. The book subtly changed how I look at the world; when you start to pay attention, status dictates nearly everything in our lives.
In the book, Marx argues that:
In the book, Marx argues that:
- There is no human
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
Foundation Architecting and Things that disappoint me
Wrapping my head around this - what if status is not aspirational in nature?
Godly — Astronomically good web design inspiration
godly.website
Have a mad vision, and you’re a kook. Get a crowd to believe in it as well, and you’re a leader.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland Until the Very End--And Further Still
Catherynne M. Valentecatvalente.substack.com
This has been on my reading list for a couple of weeks now - so glad I saved it to read :-)
I don’t know why we talk about walled gardens.
That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.
It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.
They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more
That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.
It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.
They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more
Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever
At the core of our psychological approach to understanding radicalization is people's drive to re-establish feelings of personal significance following actual or perceived threats to their sense of meaning or belonging in society, a process known as significance quest.
Countering Extremism Directive — Mindbridge
Empathy and Foundation Architecting
there’s something significant about publishing a creative work online - particularly made with another person - it is tangible - visible and a permanent record of interaction and participation
Every once in a while, I meet a person who radiates joy. These are people who seem to glow with an inner light. They are kind, tranquil, delighted by small pleasures, and grateful for the large ones. These people are not perfect. They get exhausted and stressed. They make errors in judgment. But they live for others, and not for themselves. They’ve... See more
David Brooks • The Second Mountain
Using LLM products today feels a lot like using early cars in the 1800s: clearly magical, clearly going to change the world, and really hard to drive.
The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made... See more
The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made... See more