sparks
My speech at my son’s Bris, 9 years ago:
Thank you all for being here - Rabbis, family, friends- to welcome our son to the world on his 8th day. Like all Jewish events in history, the bris starts with a severe dose of pain…and ends of course with a severe dose of food.
Welcome to the tribe, son!
We wanted to briefly share the origin of our son's
Bodies are Eating the World
Up from the ground comes a great swell of bodies. Running, lifting, bathing, shaking down, thinning out and waking up, bodies have taken over popular culture. Huberman is the biggest podcaster in the nation. One in eight Americans have tried GLP-1s. Seed oil discourse has created a new physical purity drive. Van der... See more
Up from the ground comes a great swell of bodies. Running, lifting, bathing, shaking down, thinning out and waking up, bodies have taken over popular culture. Huberman is the biggest podcaster in the nation. One in eight Americans have tried GLP-1s. Seed oil discourse has created a new physical purity drive. Van der... See more
Body Futurism
A lot of people believe they’re “principled” when they’re actually just rigid. And the rigidity is making them boring as fuck .
And I don’t mean boring in the harmless way, like “prefers routine” or “goes to bed early” boring. I mean boring in the spiritually stale way, where talking to them feels like interacting with a pull-string doll from the... See more
And I don’t mean boring in the harmless way, like “prefers routine” or “goes to bed early” boring. I mean boring in the spiritually stale way, where talking to them feels like interacting with a pull-string doll from the... See more
stepfanie tyler • Intellectual rigidity is making you boring as fuck
Bob Dylan asks Cohen: "How long did it take you to write Hallelujah?”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
there’s no "one way” to do things
Two competing and seemingly contradicting theories concerning the skewness of the music market have emerged in the literature in recent years. These theories can be referred to as the “winner-takes-all” theory and the “long-tail” theory. The supporters of the winner-takes-all theory say that some superstars can capture a significant portion of the... See more
Simon de la Rouviere • This Essay Shouldn't Go Viral
true for everything on the internet
the one thing that humans can do that AIs cannot do is meaning-making.
What is meaning-making? Vaughn’s chosen definition is that meaning-making is “any decision we make about the subjective value of a thing.”
Humans make meaning all the time — in business and in life. We:
What is meaning-making? Vaughn’s chosen definition is that meaning-making is “any decision we make about the subjective value of a thing.”
Humans make meaning all the time — in business and in life. We:
- Decide that something is good or bad. For instance: “diamonds are beautiful”