reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to more people than ever and terribly lonely nevertheless. Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.
I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgIlya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Dwarkesh Pateldwarkesh.com
Deep Roots, Hard Looks, and Change — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
Emily Holdmanpermanentequity.com
this hits hard (reminds me of something i wanna write about - binary thinking is bad)