foggy clouds
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreI’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
You cannot really change the nature of knowledge even if you're shouting from the rooftops. So now I have said this, and many people have confirmed that it is so. And it doesn't mean, as far as I can tell, to the rest of the world. So I've become interested in something else, which is what's it like to be people who know this in a world where
... See moreWe Plants Are Happy Plants • Terence McKenna - Harmless Madness
This is, by the way, the dirty secret of the machine learning movement: almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand, because mostly the ML is trained by feeding it examples of what humans did while following a very dumb heuristic. There's no magic here. If you use ML to... See more
Forget Privacy: You're Terrible at Targeting Anyway
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
