provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
I'm not surprised at all. Building good consumer products is insanely hard and takes lots of time and iteration.
Being open and flexible to opportunity is sometimes more important than knowing what you’re trying to do.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
being too intellectual is a terrible danger. it takes you further from your basic truth. “don’t think - feel”
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that
... See morearon • Ambient Co-Presence
a glorious rewrite of the giving tree. much rather model society on this.
Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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