Thought provoking
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
– Justin Welsh
The region-beta paradox describes the phenomenon whereby, sometimes, a person may benefit from being worse off versus just mildly off, because being worse off may mobilize them to take action to address the problem, whereas being mildly off can lead them to stagnancy.
Haley Nahman • #161: Unhappy medium
As a younger man, I always had a "data over feelings" view of the world, but after 15+ years of performing analytical testing, seeing data manipulated in every possible direction to fit personal biases and agendas, I now view feelings as the only thing that really matters.
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Algorithmic media incentivizes simplistic discourse, but people remain capable of complexity and compassion in the offline, real world.
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And all I can say is like I think we gotta fight that and that something you can what great is you can actually do that yourself You can fight and like not be a participant in that Sometimes I wonder though well not wonder I think that it is I more of a cynic I think that it ends up being a losing battle because even the first question, right? You
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Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
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And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
... See more"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra