cities need more cozy enchanting late night cafes to work & read from til 1am

People assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?

From Ezra Klein:

AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that

Maybe Slow-Fi makes its so we are more intentional, more grounded, more tethered, more invested, more attentive, more open, more inquistive and more exploratory with how we use, manage and operate our "Financial Wealth" artifacts (with the other artifacts being Tradeable, Measurable, Rankable, Nameable and Polymorphic) - and that it makes us much m

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

slow living as a portal to becoming one with the rhythms of nature