reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see
Creation becomes consumption
open.substack.com
Most people don’t want a blank canvas, they want a dance, a format, a prompt.
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
english.elpais.com
Episode #188 Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
youtube.comThis was illuminating. My notes:
Negative power is the way people have been control for most of human history.
Negative power means being controlled by prohibition or limitation, telling people you can’t do this or that. Today, people are controlled through positive power. Positive power tells you you can be whatever you want, you’re in charge, so you have no limitations. As long as you can put your head down, focus, grind, achieve your short term goals, set new ones and achieve those.
Authenticity is an ad campaign of neo-liberalism. It's a self absorbed nightmare. People now have to define themselves through themselves without any sort of help from the outside. Everyone is their own little personal project. Everything we learn is not just learning anymore. It's an investment in ourselves. Everything is about mentally optimizing yourself working, producing more efficiently with your mind.
don't take the bait
jasmi.newscreativity is not a scarce commodity
beautifully written.
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Dwarkesh Pateldwarkesh.com