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Algorithms, by their very nature, assume and assure that you would like your future to be like your past. — Luke Burgis
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist tempation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find the strength... See more
Capacities
“My role as a writer is to state things as clearly as I possibly can, to make them in such a way that they haunt, to state truths and to reinforce the animating notion of my politics — which is that all humanity is equal and is worthy of that.” - Te-Nehisi Coates
I don’t know if people develop such a deep connection to the things they buy these days. Many people have a strong desire to possess the latest thing, and manufacturers and advertisers know this. It is not by accident that merchandise is not created to last. The objects of our desire are constantly changing. And our desires for the objects we
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • How to Focus
Sometimes, when people are recounting my career, they look at when I left academia for BuzzFeed News, in 2014....and when I left BuzzFeed to write full-time at Substack, in 2020....and they ask: how did you get ahead of the curve ? I didn’t have any inside knowledge. And I certainly didn’t make any of those moves without real terror. But when... See more
Just a moment...
Cooks don't know why baking soda and baking powder are different, just that the recipe called for one of them.
A chef, on the other hand, understands the actual principles behind the recipes. They know why ingredients interact the way they do, which means they can create new dishes and fix problems... See more
"I want to treat you like a chef, not a cook."
A chef, on the other hand, understands the actual principles behind the recipes. They know why ingredients interact the way they do, which means they can create new dishes and fix problems... See more
The Philosophy of Professional Writing: Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture #1 (2025)
The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein