evanovich

@evancm

Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,

respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.

I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,

as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.

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Everything is made up. Go make up a life that’s gentler on yourself.

- YouTube

Change is the Only Constant and Mindfulness & Wisdom

At the core of your desire to create a problem is simply the fear of being who you are and living the life you want.

Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Art I Like

He’s gonna knife ya.

Before you heal someone you must ask them if they are willing to give up the things that made them.

• Sick people cry out for change yet cling to the very patterns that keep them unwell.

• They seek healing but refuse to part with the habits, the identities, the attachments that sustain their suffering.

• A man drowning in a river may scream for... See more

Mental Models and

Instructions before visiting Earth

In the event that you wake up

and find your soul separated from source

and manifest into material form, don’t panic.

Your condition is only temporary.

You have been selected for the opportunity

of human incarnation.

This 3D simulation is designed

to break up the monotony of eternity

by giving you a fully immersive

Instructions before visiting Earth

A New Paradigm

Help is the sunny side of control.

AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse 02-20-26.pdf

economics.mit.edu

Technology

1. Good human decisions combine general knowledge with context-specific information. 2. Human effort directed at improving cognition generates both types of information, with the primary private return coming from context-specific information. 3. Individual contributions to general knowledge create externalities on others who build on this general... See more

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Technology

don’t get silo’d with a personal agent for too long - quality degrades, you forget how to learn, knowledge collapses at scale.

Is this treating things as people, or treating people as things? “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Either way I think it’s evil, and the evil is not the technology—it’s the dreams of the people trying to sell it to us.

Rusty Foster • A.I. Isn't People

A New Paradigm

Anthropomorphizing the machines to normalize them as workers…that are replacing people to the economic benefit of plutocrats.