provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
“It’s good to have people in your life who you don’t want to disappoint.” – Warren Buffett
Morgan Housel • Smart Things Smart People Said
The story ends when enough people stop believing in it, not when the opportunity space actually dries up.
Venkatesh Rao • Narrative Slipstream Effects
The hotnewtheory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered our attention spans and extinguished our taste for text. Books are disappearing from our culture, and so are our capacities for complex and rational thought. We are careening toward a post-literate... See more
Text is king
"People don't remember books; they remember sentences."
I can't find who said this first but it's so true.
Morgan Houseltwitter.com
Interesting AI perspective
I roll my eyes when people demand we build AI to “augment and not replace” us. This is a platitude, wishful thinking; it is not a reality most workers can choose. If the tech is good and cheap enough to replace us, it will. Economic incentives are a hell of a drug.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
Frank by Seth Brown
The Misalignment Museum
The fork on your plate isn’t inevitable—it’s propaganda. Its design has been polished by centuries of iteration, yes, but also by centuries of forgetting. We stopped asking why a fork looks the way it does because it became too familiar to question. It’s not a tool anymore; it’s a dogma.
But supernormal isn’t about inevitability. It’s about normalization. When something becomes so ubiquitous, so embedded in daily life, it disappears from view. That’s not just true for objects—it’s true for the systems we live by. Markets, money, time.