curiosity
The job of an internet creator (a real maker, not just a two year flash in the pan) is to be the maximum amount of curious possible. My task is to be crazy interested in the world around me and report back to all of you what I find. It's the best gig in the world (for me) š
Evan Armstrong š§x.comThatās the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it.
James Somers ā¢ JamesSomers ā More people should write
Another example of this sort of thing that I am constantly frustrated with is something that I experience as other people being very lacking in curiosity, but from the inside is probably more a lack of reflexive agency over their understanding of the world: It seems like people just stay confused about things that matter to them, and I find this
... See moreDavid R. MacIver ā¢ Learning to exercise agency
Not just reading more, but whom I read and how I read. Including authors in reading lists can be a mere ā[indication] of engagement, but as such that āengagementā can be a very superficial one, one which acknowledges the existence of a body of work through name-checking, but which fails to attend to, disseminate, reinforce, or critique the detail
... See moreMax Liboiron ā¢ #Collabrary: A Methodological Experiment for Reading With Reciprocity
One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation
Davidtwitter.comInfopunk Issue #5 ā Brain Bonds: Bridging Curiosity, Creativity, Investing, and Character Patterns
Juan Orbeaopen.substack.com
Cool project of a friend.
Howtown is a YouTube channel that explores the path from curiosity to knowledge.
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In each episode, we answer a different "how do they know that?" question, diving into the research methods behind commonly held facts, public claims, and news headlines.
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