Every - essay bits inspo
collecting fragments of inspo for the essay I’m working on with Every
full essay here: https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity
Every - essay bits inspo
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of
... See moreTim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
One analogy I heard and have come to appreciate around this dialogue is that of driving a car. For a majority of car rides — maybe you’re commuting to work, driving to the airport, or running errands — a self-driving car might be your first choice. But for a select number of car rides — maybe you’re on vacation, or with friends on a road trip — you... See more
My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs... See more
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs... See more
Casey Newton • Three apps that made me more productive this year
The general assumption driven by these optimization models is always that faster is better. I think there are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask that question about what those things are, I think we’ll get things terribly, terribly wrong.
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
lasting culture cannot be automated and meaningful creativity cannot be manufactured
Meaning and point of view are essential for anything worthy of our attention. It’s about a sense of purpose and personality that goes beyond mere information transmission. It’s about paying attention, and not outsourcing observation. In a world increasingly populated by auto-generated content, the combination of substance and style will rise above
Carly Ayres • On substance with style
If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about
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