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Your life plays out over your entire lifetime.
The Imperfectionist: Living two hours in the future
Shane Melaugh
To truly live—rather than merely exist—one must reject the illusion of safety and embrace the uncertainty that defines life. Growth, passion, and fulfillment lie beyond the walls of comfort, in the unpredictable terrain of risk and self-discovery.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Sam Harris - Wikiquote
Sam Harris
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. But in knowledge work, we hoard. We treat accumulation as a virtue.
But what if deletion is the truer discipline?
https://medium.com/westenberg/i-deleted-my-second-brain-b7a65bce3717
We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being,
Aaron Benanav • Do We Need to Work?
John Stuart Mill
when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly unprep... See more
signull • the zero cost world is coming & it’s going to break your brain
For years, we feared automation would replace humans. But as AI reshapes the economy, it’s becoming clear that far from replacing human ingenuity, AI has amplified it. The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for p... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs, and think that we are just playing games to entertain ourselves since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries.