Hope vs. Climate Chaos
by Sirnesto · updated 18d ago
Hope vs. Climate Chaos
- “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more
from No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
Sirnesto added 19d ago
The world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.
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Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. Thfrom A Chance to Start Anew by Katie Hawkins-Gaar
Sirnesto added 1mo ago
If you can’t solve for the hardest part, the part with the most uncertainty, there’s no point in doing anything else.
from Grit or Quit? Advice for Tackling Tough Startup Decisions by review.firstround.com
Sirnesto added 1mo ago
- "but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)
Sirnesto added 19d ago
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See morefrom Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang
Sirnesto added 1mo ago
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