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To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
Power is shifting away from institutions and towards individuals. If we’re going to have more control over our own lives, working from anywhere, owning the internet, governing the institutions that support us -- then we need to figure out how to handle that responsibility. We need a self-governing philosophy. Existentialism is a great place to... See more
Packy McCormick • Existential Optimism
6. One of the clearest signs of intelligence is being able to hear an opinion you disagree with and not act emotionally
digital hygiene practices
1. sleep with all your tech in another room
2. put your phone "to sleep" when you get home - charge it and don't look at it again
3. set boundaries around technology and screen time (e.g. saturday mornings are for reading and doing the crossword, but not for watching youtube videos)
4. make yourself unavailable sometimes - you
... See moreNC: Well, we are told relentlessly that the world is doomed. The media amplifies this idea to the point of hysteria. We are conditioned to only see the world in terms of oppression and corruption and degradation. To some degree it is hard not be sucked into this torrent of despair, to become hardened and cynical. However, it doesn’t take much to... See more
Nick Cave: “Conservatism Is an Aspiration”
Steve Jobs often criticized Microsoft for lacking "taste," but he wasn't just talking about style.
He felt Microsoft focused too much on making things work and not enough on making them enjoyable to use. Jobs believed technology should be both useful and beautiful, while Microsoft, in his view, missed the chance to... See more
instagram.comWhy we should use AI to expand what it means to be human | Sari Azout
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If you want to understand a society, don’t listen to what they say about themselves. Look at what they make.
So, who are we then? Obsessed with scale, productivity, and the bottom line with little regard for the soul of what’s being made or the souls that’ll be shaped by it.
Don’t get me... See more