juliana ong
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juliana ong
Building and food are primary needs.
The culinary world, like architecture, is an artistic discipline that arose from the needs of man.
Shelter and food keeps a human alive.
When it comes to survival, there is an architect in each and every one of us.
When it comes to survival, there is a cook in each of us.
“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other people. But you can’t just walk around and be visible on the internet—for anyone to see you, you have to act.”
There’s something crucial here: if we don’t break the underlying infrastructure - the
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One realization I’ve come to in my money relationship journey is that financial security isn’t a set number. It’s really your relationship with “enough”.
Dana Miranda • ‘I'm not mad at the part of me that's driven and ambitious’
Functional foods have been around for decades, but are taking off anew. Consumers have become more health-conscious, weight-loss drugs are changing people’s eating habits and strained household budgets make non-essentials harder to justify
Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?
Chocolate is hardly the only treat to be reborn as a wellness product. Supermarket shelves now boast chips with added protein, gut-friendly sodas and collagen oatmeal – all part of the fast-growing “functional foods” market, which is expected to reach $586bn globally by 2030.
Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?
The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also allows idiot intellectuals to convert people into idiot followers more quickly and easily than ever before.
The result... is life in 2026.
The result... is life in 2026.
Mark Manson • Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots
There are times when it’s incredibly active and pleasurable and generative to go down these clickbaity rabbit holes online and just be amazed at what you can find. It can spark all sorts of thoughts and challenge things that you felt and give you new information... It’s a magical thing to have, absolutely, and I do that myself... I just get to call... See more
The bird that is your life; rehabilitating the active imagination in the age of fractured attention; bell hooks on language and desire
One consistent tension I’m navigating:
The pull to be at the vanguard of technology (learn Claude Code, install OpenClaw, vibe code everything!) and hurriedly experiment and drop ~$50 worth of credits on a project while asking Claude for step by step instructions like I’m disarming a bomb (“which wire,... See more
Camilo Moreno-Salamancasubstack.comI'm a very proud thief and deployer of Stewart Brand's pace layers.
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more
Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold together, fashion moves fast, nature moves slow, and the health of the whole system depends on that tension being respected.
The slow layers are load-bearing. The fast layers are adaptive. You need... See more