Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" is actually an excellent and life-affirming attitude
Divya Venn • Tweet
This is incredible
Most anxieties about the future are really about the present.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
This is at the core of my beliefs regarding the fear of AGI. It’s a reflected fear of current economic trends
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. 1
Long Questions/Short Answers
It’s all about asking the right questions
it seems that I’ll probably succeed financially a little less
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
This shouldn’t be true. Success financially should be a choice, not an outcome.
Freelancing is one of the best ways to make money in a strong economy, but it’s also one of the quickest things to disappear when companies are cutting costs.
Paul Millerd • Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless
This seems to imply that creating the impression of a strong economy is a self-fulfilling prophecy that creates more work.
Finally, we must do away with far and away the largest occupation, the one with the longest hours, the lowest pay and some of the most tedious tasks around. I refer to housewives doing housework and child-rearing. By abolishing wage-labor and achieving full unemployment we undermine the sexual division of labor. The nuclear family as we know it is ... See more
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Damn…
the only occasion on which man realizes his complete humanity by giving full “play” to both sides of his twofold nature, thinking and feeling.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.