Stuff we're thinking about
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.
Commoditization is the mechanism of compounding . It’s only by turning previously rare and unwieldy things into building blocks that we can build bigger and bigger things.
Its biggest beneficiaries are those who recognize what’s becoming commoditized and what will become... See more
Commoditization is the mechanism of compounding . It’s only by turning previously rare and unwieldy things into building blocks that we can build bigger and bigger things.
Its biggest beneficiaries are those who recognize what’s becoming commoditized and what will become... See more
Most Human Wins
Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense Dis
... See more...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.
-Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)
A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
Justin Murphy (cath/acc)x.comA special target of examination ought to be how societies differ in making room for pauses in the midst of life, for it is during such pauses that individuals are able to appraise the meaning of what they have undergone.
-Yi-Fu Tuan Life as a Field Trip
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