Thought provoking
by evanovich · updated 17d ago
Thought provoking
HOW TO (actually) CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR
People want to change their lives. They want to change their relationships, their bodies, their income, their brokerage accounts, their statuses, their homes. It’s so easy to identify what’s wrong on the outside and blame it for the feelings on the inside. Never is this so painfully clear as when the cale
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You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad. — LessWrong
evanovich added 1mo ago
Blind spots and AI.
Whenever I see people defend the 40-hour workweek, I think back to this quote by David Cain:
'But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (..) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gra
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Children, especially highly sensitive children, can be wounded in multiple ways: by bad things happening, yes, but also by good things not happening, such as their emotional needs for attunement not being met.
from The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
evanovich added 1mo ago
- One night I went home and dreamed. I stood in an unassuming living room, except that an entire wall was perfect glass looking out onto a cold, otherworldly, rocky terrain with no life as far as the eye could see. Suddenly, through the glass I saw my grandmother. She was blue in the face, agitated, obviously unable to breathe, hypoxic, and gesturing... See more
from Psychic Shit Happens All The Time by Kristin Posehn
evanovich added 1mo ago
Can’t make this shit up.
- a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.
from Psychic Shit Happens All The Time by Kristin Posehn
evanovich added 1mo ago
The universe rather resembles a soup of experience-causing material, which your mind then separates into distinct, unified objects. And even this is inappropriately projecting our own conceptions of substance onto reality.
from A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by From Narrow To General AI
evanovich added 1mo ago
Most often people believe that the “gift” is the ability itself.
from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
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