Brian
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Brian
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12/ So why the shortfall? At a high level...
◙ There are fewer active gamers than years ago (E.g. Circana reports 79% of Americans played games in 2020, but by 2022, it was down to 73%, the same as in 2019)
◙ Retained players are playing less (Circana reports Americans played an average of 14.8 hours in 2020, 16.5 in... See more
Ask yourself “what would the version of you with 100% agency in this situation do?”… and then realize that that is you. You always have 100% agency.
Keep track of your progress. I’ve been keeping a list of every book I read since 2001, and I feel great every time I add a title to the current year, whether I loved it or not. In more dedicated times, I made a point to write brief notes about what I did or didn’t like in a separate document as a kind of reading log, to help jog the memory when, as
... See moreBlake Butler • Maximizing Time for Reading
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
The active mind conjures up demons; the stilled mind extinguishes them. (said by Xuanzang)
—From Julia Lovell’s translation of Monkey King
Channeling Slouching Towards Bethlehem, there was a time where I felt like we were heading towards some dark, doom-laden future. While parts of the poem still feel accurate (the falcon can’t hear the falconer, the worst are full of passionate intensity), it’s no longer quite so clear to me where we are heading. Perhaps we’re just heading towards a
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We are still in the nihilist moment of disillusionment and anger, after people have lost faith in the old stories but before they have embraced a new one. So what next? The first step is to tone down the prophecies of doom and switch from panic mode to bewilderment. Panic is a form of hubris. It comes from the smug feeling that one knows exactly
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