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For the aspirant, there’s nothing more comforting than realizing you are not alone in trying. You’re not alone in trying to find a subject, trying to develop the discipline, trying to turn your life towards something that you can’t quite understand yet.

They told us we are lucky, to live in an era of endless doors; of infinite selves waiting to be summoned with a scroll, a post, or a step-by-step transformation.

But no one warned us of the disease it carries. Of how too much possibility can fray the edges of a person.

cars were slower than horses once

The crowd in Beijing seemed to understand the absurdity. They weren’t watching the future roll gracefully into the present; they were watching machines struggle through adolescence. They clapped anyway, as if to will the robots to keep trying. Perhaps that’s the most honest picture of humanoid robotics today: funny, flawed, and still far from home... See more

'Cause when your back's against the wall

That's when you show no fear at all

And when you're running out of time

That's when your hitch your star to mine

We won't be leaving by the same road that we came by

I guess space and time

Takes violent things, angry things

And makes them kind