Philosophy
Brian Sholis and
Philosophy
Slavoj Žižek & Yuval Harari In Conversation
youtube.comThe man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert his own existence without taking into account that of others. The fate of Italy mattered very little to the Italian condottiere; the massacres of the Indians meant nothing to Pizarro; Don Juan was... See more
Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Wu Wei
The art of effortless action.
Being at peace while engaged in the most frenetic tasks so that one can carry these out with maximum skill and efficiency.
Being ‘in the zone’ – at one with what we are doing, in a state of profound concentration and flow.
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more