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On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue

René Girard explores the concepts of innovation and imitation, contrasting historical views on innovation's negative connotations with its modern valorization, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of imitation and genuine innovation in culture and economics.

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Models All The Way Down

knowingmachines.org

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto

River Kenna open.substack.com

Accountability Sinks

Mandy Brown aworkinglibrary.com

The way we live in the United States is not normal.

Kirsten Powers kirstenpowers.substack.com

Coming Home

Mandy Brown aworkinglibrary.com

The Belan Deck

amazon.com