shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Janice Min embraces more with less
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
Janice Min embraces more with less
An embarrassingly simple reframe has been pretty profound for me: This is really hard, I must be doing something wrong to This is really hard, I must be doing something hard
H/t ashley mayer
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is me
Packy McCormick • visakan veerasamy on Substack
Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.
Rob Henderson on Substack
We often run into a lot of problems, when we start believing that our truth is THE TRUTH; when we start mistaking our beliefs for reality.
That moment—when “my truth” becomes the truth —is often when curiosity dies and conflict begins.
It’s subtle, too. We don’t usually notice it happening.
One day we’re exploring, the next we’re defending a fixed ... See more
That moment—when “my truth” becomes the truth —is often when curiosity dies and conflict begins.
It’s subtle, too. We don’t usually notice it happening.
One day we’re exploring, the next we’re defending a fixed ... See more
Anna | BACK TO SENSES on Substack
The current scientific consensus isn't truth. It's a temporary agreement among specialists working within shared assumptions. Scientific dogma that excludes uncomfortable or challenging ideas isn't science at all—it's intellectual cowardice. True scientific inquiry requires us to investigate even those phenomena that challenge our fundamental assum... See more