Cognitive Revolutions
And it's much easier for the mind to wander these days. Algorithmic feed, so many random opinions and forms of content/news all in your palm

Coordinating parts of society that are prone to disagreement creates room for variance elsewhere

The board revolt at OpenAI reminds me of my favorite idea from Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
The idea of the imagined intersubjective order. Companies are concepts of our collective imaginations. We call them legal entities and assign liability to them. They can be a vehicle for capturing value created by humans. They receive tax assessments. They can even be sued — absolving the people in charge of direct responsibility.
Yet, a company can be dissolved and reincarnated elsewhere by having the employees simply say they resigned and have moved to a new company. And that's how we keep lawyers employed. Tricks of our own cognition.

On the efficacy of multitasking
Order is important. Better to perform tasks requiring lower activation energy before more demanding ones. Build into it. Switching is expensive.
The medium truly is the message


Language is our way of giving legibility to ideas.
Only legible ideas survive.
An idea risks signal loss each time it is transmitted. A great idea survives the distance, becoming more legible the further it gets from the source. They survive the common sense test.
Great ideas also retain (or attain) legibility the longer they remain still. An idea at
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