reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Climbing out of the rabbit hole
docs.google.coman honest reflection from Yancey Strickler on stepping out of the crypto rabbit hole.
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
english.elpais.com
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
pradyuprasad.com
What Makes His Taste So Good?
nytimes.com
He’ll be like: ‘Why is that? Why? What’s the purpose? What’s the intention and what’s the purpose?’”
fascinating historical perspective.
our ancestors experienced day-to-day unpredictability (you could die from childbirth, starvation was a constant threat, etc…) but global stability (if your parents were peasants, you’d prob be a peasant).
modern humans inverted that - routine defines us but there is global instability (the world is constantly changing - technology, climate, politics)
other weird things about modern life:
children teach their parents how to use tools that are critical to thriving in modern society, a complete inversion of the transmission of knowledge through generations.
non-local social comparison - we compare ourselves to billions of people, not a few hundred in close proximity to us.
we are distanced from nature, whereas for generations before survival was tied to understanding the natural world.
