Human Stuff
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
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Human Stuff
“It’s getting ever harder to distinguish humans from bots, not just because bots are becoming more humanlike, but also because humans are becoming more botlike.”
Gurwinder • For Paid Subscribers (December 2023)
I can’t stop thinking about this post by @inspiredtowrite. How many of you feel like it’s tough to put yourself out there and express yourself because of the perception others in your life or social sphere have of you?
instagram.comOliver Burkeman on what people who’d like to keep making a living from creativity should do in the face of AI:
... See more"For me, it means two things. First: that AI tools belong in my workflow only to the extent that they help me achieve the overarching goals of human connection. This is the Amish approach to technology: first, clarify your values; then
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up.
... See moreDanusha Laméris • Poem: Small Kindnesses (Published 2019)
The only journey worth taking is the one back to self. To truth. To the body. To life. 🙌🏿💜
@violadavis @hernetworkonline @themontaukaffect
instagram.comMost self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“
From today’s post on Seth Godin’s blog.
being too intellectual is a terrible danger. it takes you further from your basic truth. “don’t think - feel”