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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is e

Everybody wants to have a village, but few are willing to be villagers. Building presence takes work. It requires vulnerability, patience, and the wil

a community is defined not by common interests or physical space, but as “a group of people who share mutual concern for one another”. It’s the differ

Most spaces are designed for consumption, not communion, leaving us with a generation fluent in connection but starved of belonging.

Experience. Don’t observe. Inhale. Don’t read. Transfigure. Don’t shift. Advocate. Don’t ponder. Prove. Don’t promise. Encourage. Don’t cut. Imagine.

In investing, higher volatility usually equates to higher possible returns. In today’s world of online expression, we settle for lower expected value,

I think the most worrisome aspect of AI systems in the short term is that we will give them too much autonomy without being fully aware of their limit

People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans ev

Creativity allows us to take the data we have, question our starting assumptions about what the data is telling us, and experiment until we make somet

The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compare

“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.” “Before anyone can make theories or get data or ha

Imagine if we could somehow show the people of the eighteenth century a simple child’s toy from today — say, a speaking doll. The common folk would m

In startups, the big winners are big to a degree that violates our expectations about variation. I don't know whether these expectations are innate or

By definition, you will likely succeed a vanishingly-small percentage of the time, but—as the saying goes—that’s a feature, not a bug. The point is to

In investing, higher volatility usually equates to higher possible returns. In today’s world of online expression, we settle for lower expected value,

Our “small giants” approach optimized for mojo over growth. We wanted a small, talent-dense team with a focus on craft, autonomy, and quality of life