Tech and Society

This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work. As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims... See more

Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective

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Screen Memories — Real Life

Kelly Pendergrast reallifemag.com

Tanuj

You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.

freddiedeboer.substack.com freddiedeboer.substack.com

Namita and

Attending to the World

L. M. Sacasas theconvivialsociety.substack.com

Alex Wittenberg

Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them. Clocks created a culture of anxiety. Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.

David Perell twitter.com

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Alara

@BasedBeffJezos

@bayeslord

@PessimistsArc

Ada Lovelace

Adam Smith

Andy Warhol

Bertrand Russell

Brad DeLong

Buckminster Fuller

Calestous Juma

Clayton Christensen

Dambisa Moyo

David Deutsch

David Friedman

David Ricardo

Deirdre McCloskey

Doug Engelbart

Elting Morison

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Frederic Bastiat

Frederick Jackson Turner

Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marc Andreessen • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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a good list of techno-optimists

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Content will be commoditized by AI—but content isn’t culture

From Hamish McKenzie

This same surge in AI-led content production will simultaneously fuel a tremendous need for cultural connection: real humans in communion with one another. These relationships help us make sense of the world, and to know where to direct our attention. Their value will

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