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Sometimes, we need to experience a moment of mortality like this to remember our days of even drawing another breath — let alone surrounded by friends
I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti
A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia
generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how
The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way
the art of creativity
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t
Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
Many people were outraged by what they regarded as his non-parliamentary use of medieval laws to raise money. The most notorious was ship money. This
In the past, propaganda served the purposes of war; now war serves the purposes of propaganda. But the blood remains real.
What do they say? Nothing at all. Life goes on. In the morning, adults hurry to work; children go to school; grandmothers go stand in lines. More and
But the question remains: Why was the Palace of the Soviets to be erected precisely where the Temple of Christ the Saviour had stood? (Let us add that
exploring the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom
“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,
Elon Musk on taking risks: "This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every
You are only as good as your ability to test your riskiest assumptions as quickly as possible.
Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks: "If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on. It requires no courage. It r
Most critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that fur
I don’t think back on those days too often, but with Matthew Perry’s death, the memories have coiled around me because of how honest he was about his
This morning—before those nineteen games, the instant I woke up—I realized that the letters in CAUTIONED can be rearranged to spell EDUCATION. This se
I am often tempted to wonder when it will get easy until, in contemplation, I am reminded to relinquish the judgement of things and their unfolding.
