elizabeth morrell
@elizabethjade
elizabeth morrell
The happiest people I know create—they write, take beautiful photos, work with wood, make music.
The unhappiest consume—endlessly scrolling through others’ highlight reels, sensationalized news stories, content designed to hijack their nervous system.
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Ryan Hennesseysubstack.comcreativity and media
“Finding the way, is the way.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
Milan Kundera
being and beautiful lines
I mean, we can’t out-AI an AI.
But we can out-human it.
Now is a time to lean into our humanity.
Yes, we can both do pattern recognition, and AI does it faster and more astutely.
But it can’t feel.
It can’t create the unknown.
It can only regurgitate.
These are the cracks in the pavement where living things sprout.
Where what is innately beautiful — life —
In the face of AI that standardizes perfection, human traces—mistakes, smudges, scribbles—will become marks of authenticity and emotion. Imperfection will be a luxury. Uniqueness, a rare privilege.
Marie Dollé • 20 reflections on AI
In the blue summer evening I will go down the path, pricked by wheat, treading on the low grass… I will not speak, I will not think… and I will wander far, far like a gypsy, happy with nature as with a woman…
Milan Kundera
You need shared contexts and shared interests. The reason why it’s difficult to make friends as an adult is because where there's shared context (seeing the same people over many months daily i.e. workplaces) there's a lack of shared interests. Where there's shared interest (hobby groups, bookclubs, etc) there's a lack of shared context. A place li... See more