Cora Eder
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Cora Eder
The psychological roots of status anxiety and how a good childhood enables the acceptance of an ordinary adult life.
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and if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed it's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions religions are saying everybody you know in in christianity every hair on your head is numbered in other words someone's really looking at you someone knows you in the way that a parent a good parent knows a child you know the
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A critique of modern AI's strategic focus, contrasting simplistic Reinforcement Learning with the intentionality required for true agentic intelligence.
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Yes. I think we're living in a world now which is a little bit too led by the strategic inferential. And I think it's going to be felt. I think we're already feeling it because there's a, how to put it, there's a certain sterility to my experience with AIs. And I think it the want of a better word It doesn have the art in it Definitely I mean that
... See moreI’ve found myself wanting to get out of the liminal place I’ve been floating in — wanting it to be done already, wanting to arrive in clarity, wanting to feel more certain or sure about what I’m supposed to be doing and how I should be doing it. Part of me feels like this pressure to “get there” comes from the false belief that there is anywhere... See more
Lisa Olivera • Ten things, part five
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
... See moreFeeling “lost” or directionless. Feeling lost is actually a sign you’re becoming more present in your life—you’re living less within the narratives and ideas that you premeditated and more in the moment at hand. Until you’re used to this, it will feel as though you’re off-track (you aren’t).