Thought provoking
We're racing towards a world where art is divorced from human creativity and I don't know that I want to live in that world
- Chance Strickland
In any case one can’t get rid of the unconscious that easily. Here is a sentence analogous to “We have always been terraforming, so let’s do it consciously now”: “I know I’m an addict so now I’m going to drink fully aware of that fact.” Being aware of “unconscious biases” is a contradiction in terms. And there is a still more salient ecological
... See moreTimothy Morton • Dark Ecology
We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll do them proper this time.
How you arrived at what you think is more important than what you think
Tim Urban • #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast
To quote Derek Sivers, "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs."
However, when it comes to the current internet we have, the city where we live digitally, I can’t feel any message of ambition. Yes, Amazon told me, “You should buy more stuff,” Facebook told me, “You should talk to your friends,” Netflix told me, “You should have more entertainment.” But the Internet itself has no strong message, but a lot of... See more
Alan Chan • My Vision: A New City
Look, my commonplace book is easily justified. I write and speak about things for a living. I need this resource. But so do you. You write papers, memos, emails, notes to friends, birthday cards, give advice, have conversations at dinner, console loved ones, tell someone special how you feel about them. All these are opportunities to use the wisdom... See more
Ryan Holiday • How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.