Remind me Often
Put simply, the masses hate experts. If forced to choose between the advice of the learned and the vague impressions of other people just like themselves , the masses invariably turn to the latter.
Ted Gioia • 15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
Every major digital scenius to date formed on captured infrastructure. Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, crypto Twitter. The pattern repeats: a scene forms, generates cultural and cognitive surplus, the platform extracts it, then enforces legibility through metrics, feeds, and incentives. Thinkability collapses into optimization. The scene disperses or... See more
Scenius, Thinkability, and the First Non-Enclosable Scene
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
I am quite the fan of Professor Randolph Nesse’s theory of depression. Nesse and his colleagues speculate that depression could act as a biological constraint system that helps to minimise wasted effort and loss by forcing the individual to slow down, reassess, and potentially change strategies.”
I don’t recommend you seek to be depressed.
But to have Deep Rest™️—I think many of us could do with that!
As you read this essay, try not clicking any links on your first pass. Follow the links later as you revisit patterns that resonate with you.
Gonzalo Nuñez • How to build a worldview
“A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.”