Sparks đď¸
You could say paradigms are harder to change than anything else about a system, and therefore this item should be lowest on the list, not second-to-highest. But thereâs nothing physical or expensive or even slow in the process of paradigm change. In a single individual it can happen in a millisecond. All it takes is a click in the mind, a falling... See more
donellameadows.org ⢠Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
The things we call intelligence have transformed us from small, slow, physically weak apes to the solar systemâs most lethal apex predators. However, when we ask whether other animals are intelligent, weâre not usually asking what capacities or kinds of bodies were advantageous in their evolutionary past. Weâre really asking whether they do things... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam ⢠What Is Intelligent Life?
but whether parasocial content is desirable or not, it points to a growing crisis on the internet: So much of what we encounter online just doesnât matter , and even worse, offers no mechanism for us to start caring about it. The average human living today sees more things they donât care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their... See more
Drew Austin ⢠The Internet's Meaning Crisis
The result is that most people have thought jobs without being given much time to think, which is the equivalent of making a ditch-digger work without a shovel. Maybe this is why productivity growth is half of what it used to be.
Collaborative Fund ⢠Lazy Work, Good Work
The rules had been constructed long before I was born, and I did not know yet I was allowed to break them or redefine them or ignore them entirely.
â Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You
The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
âChildren donât see the world, donât observe the world, donât contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they donât distinguish between it and their own selves.â - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
