shifting perspectives
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shifting perspectives
While Kaczynski wanted to demolish industrial society and return humanity to an agrarian life, US defense secretary Robert McNamara wanted the opposite: to use American industrial might to crush the agrarian society of Vietnam.
McNamara was a statistician who believed what couldn’t be measured didn’t matter. He charted progress in the Vietnam war by
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FOMO is good. Being plugged in is good. There is valuable info at all levels from twitter gossip to philosophy books. You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding - by Venkatesh Rao Against Waldenponding
“The times are urgent. Let us slow down.” —Bayo Akomolafe
Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong
Emmett Shear • Tweet
“Cheating” on homework by using ChatGPT may end up being a more important skill than anything else kids learn in school.
David Sackstwitter.com
the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumel
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