provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
I often think of Enya, refusing to listen to any music, in case it influences her
And Walt Disney, who became glued to TV, would watch anything, just to stay on top of the (new at the time) medium and what people were doing with it
Artistically, both of these seem valid
Simon Sarristwitter.comthere’s no one way to do anything. there’s just your way.
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
–Chuck Palahniuk
the key to happiness is not comfort, but discomfort
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Frank by Seth Brown
The Misalignment Museum
If prestige thinking is less essential than we claimed, and if machines can now produce a lot of its outputs cheaply, then what’s coming is not necessarily a tragedy for humanity. It may be a correction.
A correction of our class’s inflated self-regard.
A correction of an educational system that quietly treated one kind of cognition as the apex of... See more
A correction of our class’s inflated self-regard.
A correction of an educational system that quietly treated one kind of cognition as the apex of... See more
The Thinking Class
“What we can say is just a fraction of what we're thinking. What we're thinking is a fraction of articulations of what we perceive. What we perceive is a fraction of what is actually in front of us. And what is in front of us is a small fraction, a tiny fraction of what exists. But we believe that by wording things, by saying things, we can see
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