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what, in the age of smart machines, was special about being a person
That should make us ask what new myths we are constructing, right now, about what is good for us. Robots that read to us? Long-distance classes that w
via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to co
There is one question that both of Dario Amodei’s essays struggle to answer: the biggest question of all. If the machines can do our research and writ
instead of asking “what’s my passion?” — start with a softer lens: what feels good in my nervous system? you’ll learn more about yourself by tracking
The common complaint among a lot of these people is that they need to “find their passion.”I call bullshit. You already found your passion, you’re jus
“The advice to follow your passion can be intimidating at best and harmful at worst.” Instead, I recommend you follow whatever’s currently
If I ask someone who’s trying to figure out WTF they want to do with their lives, “Well, what’s your passion?” they’ll typically blow a fuse, short-ci
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that
There’s an audience out there that will appreciate your work. Whether that audience is big or small is anyone’s guess, but if you’re chasing numbers,
Transparency in sourcing and manufacturing has become table stakes in the minds of over two-thirds of 18 to 35-year-olds. Where something is made, und
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons Often designs from frustration Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democr
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human atten
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out dif
I also spent time aligning labels, icons, and buttons, both vertically and horizontally in the sidebar and tabs. It was definitely a challenge given t
Also, don’t fall into the trap of productivity porn—chasing productivity for its own sake isn’t helpful. Many people spend too much time thinking abo
"Embracing risk, fear, and rejection gives you the power to transform your life." – Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
“I don’t think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t yet feel strong
If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to.
Baldwin understood the singular importance of the novel, because he saw the dilemma his country faced as essentially an interior one, as his fellow ci
I'm fed up. At this point in my career, I'm tired of writing the most milquetoast, pushover, inoffensive, coddling copy that (seemingly) every brand w
I want to start something different: I want my children to feel good inside, to feel valuable and lovable and worthy, even when they struggle. And thi
Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with
The three keys to peaceful parenting:Regulate your own emotions:“Our ability to self-regulate might have the biggest impact on who our child turns out
Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that, along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is
we need look no further than the most recent financial crisis for evidence of how poorly we manage what we believe we can measure.
Truth is in what is—and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggl
In Lauren Oyler’s essay about anxiety last week, she referenced a late 19th century diagnosis known as Americanitis, which described “the high-strung,
This rant via Shalom Auslander I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by
The Garden is the web as topology. The web as space. It’s the integrative web, the iterative web, the web as an arrangement and rearrangement of thing
In the stream metaphor you don’t experience the Stream by walking around it and looking at it, or following it to its end. You jump in and let it flow
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar a
the elevation of emotion over reason and of the senses over the intellect; an introspective orientation and fascination with the self; hypersensibilit
The humanities are our essential fortification as we defend ourselves against an entirely utilitarian engineering mind-set. They help us celebrate and
deeper antagonism in society: technologists don’t know what they don’t know until they know it. In contrast, artists and romantics, by the very nature