sparks
Alison Roman
# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comthe truth. “There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education… This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those ‘Garden Veggie Straws’, which feel like you're eating healthy until you look at the ingredients.”
I hope the sense of struggling, rather than knowing, is palpable here.
Rayne Fisher-Quann • the ends of empathy
love the honesty here - it’s not write what you know, it’s write to understand what you don’t know
Few things shock me like my own forgetfulness.
Frederik Gieschen • Revisiting 2023: Books and Podcasts
Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.