Human Essence
What defines being human
Body, emotions, intuition, imperfection, empathy
Human Essence
Jacob Collier & Chris Martin - Fix You (Live from the O2 Arena)
youtube.comThere are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Curation is the act of creating context. - Jacob Horne
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
we’ve been trained since childhood to value the answer. school taught us that. the world graded us on it.
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
but real thinkers, dangerous thinkers, chase questions.
not to look smart. not to win arguments.
but to see differently.
to peel back the world & ask: why does this even look like this?
to ask things like:
- what assumptions are hiding in plain sight?
- w
answers are now insanely cheap
What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul,
instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?
River Kennax.com
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
