Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
There is, to put it baldly, no right not to be offended. To be sure, that doesn’t mean that deliberately offending people for its own sake is morally acceptable, or that people should be entitled to use speech to incite violence, harass, or threaten. Rather, it means that the impulse to punish people who offend is a regressive urge, one that... See more
Stephen Johnson • Speech Is Violence? Not if We Want a Liberal, Intellectual Society
Magnus Carlsen: And I think it’s always better to be overly confident than pessimistic. I realize sometimes after games that, you know, I was actually way too confident here. I was way too optimistic. But if you’re not optimistic, if you’re not looking for your chances, you’re going to miss. You’re going to miss opportunities. And you know, I think... See more
Farnam Street • The Winner’s Edge
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics:
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
I love the way Kym Petrie describes getting into the creative space to restore a house. She describes it as “being there, lost in that space.” That triggers something for me. I do the same thing in places. It’s like your letting your mind view it’s past and maybe even its future. What was it like to live there? Can you feel that snapshot of time?
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Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
Over the past decade, farmers have been offered all manner of software tools to analyze and manage their crops. In general, though, the more software that farmers use, the more they find themselves overwhelmed by data that the tools collect. “We’re collecting so much data that you’re almost paralyzed with having to analyze it all,” one farmer told... See more
Casey Newton • Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter
The reason why I bring these memories up is that they remind me of a deeper vision underlying crypto: we are not here to just create isolated tools and games, but rather build holistically toward a more free and open society and economy, where the different parts - technological, social and economic - fit into each other.
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
Then the news broke that Trump had carried Florida. The voices of CNN reverberated from too many television screens, monstrous, distorted, unintelligible. Everything liberal America had told itself about itself and the rest of the country seemed inside out and upside down.
Farah Stockman • American Made
The left is blind to what drives populism on the right.
These same words could easily describe the left’s reaction to Trump’s 2024 win, showing that 8 years following 2016, they learned nothing. They were just as surprised and blindsided by his win as they were the first time.