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“I think more generally our problem is a progressive culture where we are afraid to say what is decent moral conduct, where we can’t really call out what is undignified or distasteful anymore, where we’re terrified to enforce any ethical expectations.”
N.S. Lyons • A World In Upheaval
I used to believe in the adage, “If they wanted to, they would.” But now I think it’s more like, “If they’re open-hearted, and open-minded, and curious, and not too cautious, then, maybe, they might. Or they still might not.”
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing.
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • WIP: the case for sharing your work in public
The outcome of any concerted attempt at self-knowledge could be presumed to be a deep understanding of ourselves. But strangely, the real outcome is rather different. It appears that the more closely we explore our minds, the more we start to see how many tricks these organs can play on us – and therefore the more we will appreciate how often we
... See moreThe School of Life • Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
When you use AI to scale output, you're not just saving time. You're slowly averaging yourself out. You're moving toward the mean. And the mean is worthless in brand work. The mean is what everyone else already sounds like. The atmosphere is filling up with this undifferentiated, machine-assisted content and it's changing the conditions for... See more