Story as the interface we use to make sense of the world
I spend 90% of my time thinking about stories and narratives, and like so many other things, narrative formation is getting decentralized. This is my attempt to figure out what’s happening and where it’s heading.Crafting and telling stories is part of what makes humans humans. Stories let us coordinate across time and space. Stories are undeniably ... See more
Packy McCormick • Story Time
AI can write faster than me now. It can code faster, think faster, create faster. But it can't feel the way my heart stops when I read the perfect sentence. It can't know why certain images haunt me for days. It can't understand why some ideas refuse to let go.
That's what I collect now. Not information. Not content. But moments of recognition. Piec
... See moreThis ability to construct narrative is more than just a skill we’ve managed to master, it’s become our very means of interpreting reality. Similar to our instinct for learning language, researchers have observed an almost universal inclination in children for absorbing and creating narrative. And our personal identities can be seen as the most intr
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