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The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence.
Kyle Chayka • It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
The most human, powerful and humbling thing I've ever seen was a church at 3:00 on a Wednesday full of inconvenienced people who believe in going to the funeral.
Deirdre Sullivan • Always Go To The Funeral : NPR
Always Go To The Funeral
“Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about those things that represent only... See more
sari azoutx.commy favorite ways to talk to a stranger:
- offer to take a photo for them in pretty places
- ask what food they ordered
- comment on how beautiful the weather is
- give them a casual compliment
- ask what they're reading
- ask for directions
- casual... See more
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I think we as humans tend to put more value in our lives than we should, and of course life is precious and limited and fast, but at the same time all a human is just a human. With their limitations, problems, chaos and everything else. The good and the bad.
The world makes us tend to believe our life needs to always be grander and more special and filled with all sorts of amazing things all the time always, more than we need to, it's more of a balance than anything.
Same with remembering our own mortality, it can push you to be anxious and fearful and feeling like you're on borrowed time, but it can also remind you that all of this is not as important as we make it out to be if we truly think about it.
I’ve realized it’s almost impossible to avoid de-intellectualization once you leave the university scene. I try my best to read at least 15+ books a year, I take courses, volunteer etc. but there’s still nothing like the environment of a university which constantly engages you
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