Short Reframings
Meanwhile, our corporations are full of bodies - our offices have become disembodied and mediated via Zoom screens but our teams are still embodied and grappling with new environments.
The body becomes a clearer extension of the organization now that we're playing in emergent territory - the home is now the office and companies are now in the busine... See more
The body becomes a clearer extension of the organization now that we're playing in emergent territory - the home is now the office and companies are now in the busine... See more
Tom Critchlow • LF08 - Embodied Futures
“It is probably more important for survival that people have a stable internal model of the world than for that model to be strictly correct ,”
The Medium Newsletter • How being irrational helps us cooperate and survive
everywhere we look as creators today the gravity is just pushing us it's just pushing us toward making for other reasons than why we set out to make things in the first place it's so important to remember to make beautiful things to make things that light you up and to make things that you care about there's a wonderful metaphor that I love um it's
... See moreUBI should not be just about survival or consumer spending. Instead, it should be seen as a catalyst for driving technological change. A kind of long-form state support could shore up social cohesion and lead to better governance. That would have a halo effect.
People are more likely to participate in the technological transition positively if they... See more
People are more likely to participate in the technological transition positively if they... See more
Azeem Azhar • 💸 Turning UBI on its head
We often compare social media to Orwell’s surveillance state of 1984 , but here’s what’s different about our telescreens: our screens do not exist to monitor us, but for us to monitor others. There is no totalitarian state behind our screens enforcing social order; instead, the screens turn us into the supervisors of each others’ behaviors.
Sherry Ning • Stop Looking At Each Other
I was talking to a friend the other day about life hacks and he said: what if life hacks, in the end, make you a hack? No one wants to be a hack. A hack job is a job poorly done. No matter how much we glorify hacks as workarounds to success, nothing gets you there except actual work. The grind, the hustle, the hours on end putting your head down an... See more
Martin Brodsky • How to Life Hack
Ambition isn't about getting more money, more goods, bigger houses, greater acclaim from people you don't know or respect. It's not about anything that can fit on a spreadsheet or graph, or that lends itself well to bragging on social media. All of that is just grasping, not ambition.
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in t... See more
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in t... See more
River Kenna • Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto
"The key to thriving in our high-tech world, they’ve learned, is to spend much less time using technology." (Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism)
It’s easy to get into a routine of all the things that are supposed to be indicators of a good life, and yet that life is not good.
It’s just... fine.
The “good life” lives beyond those bounds.
It’s just... fine.
The “good life” lives beyond those bounds.