to be human

To me, challenging doesn’t look like the person who just grinds through a project to get it done, sacrificing sleep, family, or any semblance of balance. While brute force may be effective short -term, I’m convinced it doesn’t lend itself to sustainable creativity, joy, or meaning (and sustainability is everything – from a biological and mathematic... See more

Unknown • Challenging * Mattering = Meaningful

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: There must be something you want to do.

Pierre Bezukhov: I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when

War and Peace (1956) - Quotes - IMDb

The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.

I’ll go even further ... See more

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Alain de Botton nytimes.com

How to like everything more - by Sasha Chapin How to like everything more

Sasha Chapin sashachapin.substack.com

In what ways is my judgment about them actually about something I judge myself for?

Pimethy • A few questions to use in the moment

The more sensitive

an instrument, the more useful and

expensive it is scientifically, like that

is what makes an instrument great is

its insane specificity. Its sensitivity.