Josh Bowen

What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is... See more

The ersatz third place is a consequence of a culture obsessed with productivity and status, whose subjects might have decent incomes but little recreational time.

Think-in-bio is the new link-in-bio

A lot of what I collect on Sublime I do privately.

But everything I make public lives on sublime.app/sari.

My very own think-in-bio.

A think-in-bio is like giving others an API for your mind. 

To be able to follow people like Packy McCormick, Rob Hardy, Natalie Audelo, Steve Schlafman and see what they’re saving to... See more

This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work. As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims... See more

Watch @jonbatiste turn Beethoven into the blues. It’s absolutely amazing.

Your ideas are a product of the information you consume. Improving your outputs requires actively directing your attention to high-quality information streams and diverting attention from low-quality ones.

The tricky thing is that our information ecosystem is full of talented marketers who masquerade as experts with convincing copywriting techniques

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