Things that made me stop and think
In real life, the success or failure of each individual performance often plays out in the form of concrete, physical action—you get invited over for dinner, or you lose the friendship, or you get the job. Online, performance is mostly arrested in the nebulous realm of sentiment, through an unbroken stream of hearts and likes and eyeballs,
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastination. Sometimes, it’s simply your mind telling you to follow your curiosity. Weirdness can present itself at any given moment, through any medium.
Sublime • How to have a POV
“At a certain point, we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by... See more
Courage is the ingredient any time someone acts in the face of uncertainty. And when you act with courage consistently, time stretches.
Maybe the lesson is even simpler...
Comfort speeds up time.
Courage makes time slow down.
Maybe the lesson is even simpler...
Comfort speeds up time.
Courage makes time slow down.
How to Slow Down Time
For care, though, it doesn’t get bigger and better. If your goal is to educate the world, you can look for ways to educate thousands or millions. If you want to inspire the world, the billions await. But if your goal is to care for the world, and in a given moment you’re deeply caring for one person, you’re doing the best it’s possible to do.
stevenscrawls.com • Care Doesn’t Scale
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 permission.
Gianluca Segato • Agency is Eating the World
When two people work on a shared project – a joke, a product, an essay, a story – and are able to understand and build on each other, that’s the peak of the human condition.