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It begins to feel as though youâre failing at life, in some indistinct way, if youâre not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (âRelax! Youâll Be More Productive,â reads the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Slow Is Smooth And Smooth Is Fast
aneri.base.eth ⢠Tweet
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?
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
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
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
Tom Critchlow ⢠LF:13 Family Futures
I like to use that word now, soul . I prefer using soul to mind , not that theyâre the same concept at all. âMindâ automatically seems to evoke âversus bodyâ in the minds of everyone, including myself, no matter how hard we try, no matter how many times weâve noticed that the brain is an organ of the body and that the human mind emerges from the... See more