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Schopenhauer once said that humanity is defined by our tendency to restlessly strive , but I think he was only partially right. Striving is in our nature, but it doesnāt mean that itās restless.
Lawrence Yeo ā¢ The Arc of the Practical Creator
I personally think that an AI needs to die.
GPT-4o Must Die? - thejaymo
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.
ā Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You
The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
Soon after I first posted this essay in a blog some 15 years ago, a young man approached me to ask if I minded him reposting it. I asked him where that would be. He and some others had launched a site called āGenerationā. Its aim was to prepare for the coming war between the generations by assembling useful documents and providing a forum for... See more
John Keith Hart ā¢ %
We might not be able to escape the sociopolitical systems that structure the world at large, but by knowing they exist, we can be more intentional about how we move through and beyond them.
Leaving the Cult of Never Enough
Why are we seeing a global homogenizing of culture across every dimension that counts? Why has Hollywood become so creatively bankrupt that nobody bothers watching that oh-so-predictable-52nd sequel to a superhero movie? Why have pop songs become so objectively similar? Why is everyone following the same formula for their posts on Instagram and hum... See more
invencion.com ā¢ Culture & the Algorithm.
Measuring wealth from zero is a different way to think about it than normal. What makes you wealthy, in the way the word is typically used, isnāt what you have, but what you have compared to the people near you in time, space, and culture.