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The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also

“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 peopl

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio

From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I

I’m equally responsible to the people who pay me to design and the people who have to live with my designs

My Techno-Optimism

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

The man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert h

Both public and private failures bring their own problems and their own kinds of pain. But private failure is unique in that it often depends on your

“Worry can become like a bad habit of the mind. The rule of neuroplasticity—that our brain keeps changing based on our repeated activity—says that wha

many of the quant-ities related to suffering are based on perceptions and similar uncertain infer-ences. The uncertainty will necessarily increase fru

Scientists have demonstrated that, as the years go by, much of what we think we remember is false. It seems our brains can't store every detail we exp

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are s

Distractions divert you from your goals, while opportunities align with and propel you toward them. For example, Americans spend an average of 11 hour

re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started

A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry

Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract onese

Asking people to change themselves instead of changing the work environment around them is a strategy that not only wastes resources but may also infu

When I train leaders in empathy, one of the first hurdles I need to get over is this stereotype that empathy is too soft and squishy for the work envi

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help

information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.

This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources

And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit know

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through

A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources

Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their

The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

The people who build collective power are typically individuals who have lacked traditional access to individualized power. What they know too is that

What is this teaching me?

Latvia’s Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was created because he was somehow obsessed Blender, the free/open-source 3D modeling tool.

Scott Alexander’s recent post argues that the best response to AI displacement isn’t optimization or doomerism—it’s play. Figure out what you actually

what would one imperfect action teach me?

A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a

a big theme from opening sessions at @bowmansschool is the importance of paying attention to your feelings a few people have said they don't have acc

How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) 🧵 for @threadapalooza

The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think

Writing is important, of course, and hopefully, the dialogue, anti-description, and subtext I created illustrates the enormous chasm between a human’s

fear of crime is deeply embedded in American society, and positive news about falling crime rates won’t simply make that fear go away.

The fundamental issue is that these are subtle and esoteric arts. These ways of experiencing and interrogating reality depend (almost) wholly upon our

People with an optimistic mindset are associated with various positive health indicators, particularly cardiovascular, but also pulmonary, metabolic,

Umwelt, as I learned from Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World, is the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. How does the organism that is

What you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps we

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on thems

pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet

Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a

The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo

To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

Every Resource I Use to Educate My Kids

One of the most important aspects of these workbooks is the remarkable sense of process they provide—not only are the projects they’re concerned with

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

I think that the era of rigid zonal segregation is over. No longer can a city be simply divided into a series of discrete places: the place where I wo

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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

" We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working mod

thinking about when my dad was teaching me to drive and had me do my route to school (12 miles away) three times: once at the speed limit, once at the

Strategies for Learning

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to cho

The value of a position in chess consists of its probability of victory for the player. Moves are evaluated according to how they affect this probabil

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about

We need more vocabulary around the experience of thinking, as in: -thinking qua “directing my inner monologue along certain pathways” - thinking qua

research on intellectual humility has exploded in the past 10 years. Psychologists now have many different ways to assess intellectual humility. Socia

“The more overtly unshakeable someone’s beliefs are, the more diminished they seem to become, because they have stopped questioning, and the not-quest

The King of Bhutan's coronation pledge is beautiful: “Throughout my reign I will never rule you as a King. I will protect you as a parent, care for y

Feedback is ineffective if it does NOT result in the other person taking action in a way they or you feel good about. As the remixed Dostoevsky quote

The most important ingredient for giving effective feedback is care for the other person. Your intent must to be genuinely help the other person. You

When delivering tough feedback, use this framework: Start directly: “I want to chat with you about [specific issue]” Share observations: “What I’m hea

Kind Words is arguably the best game for any person feeling lonely, as it can be enjoyed even by non-gamers. The objective is to write and receive let

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

it is very Good™️ to have many many small moments of connection - a hello, a goodbye, a ‘have a good day’, a bit of chitchat - with each person we enc

i live my life this way. almost every day is full of multiple tiny interactions with no aim beyond a hello, a how are you, a smile and then i continue

That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti

when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture

Tech communities, like any community, are messy. If you’re fortunate to land on one that’s inclusive and welcoming then there are exciting things comi

The club model teaches us something: organizations that endure don’t try to include everyone. They’re clear about their identity, even as that identit

We believe that a healthy ecosystem competes on innovative features, not critical mass. The social web should be centered around people, not platforms

It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec

design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagin

Cayce Pollard as the positive archetype for how to navigate volatility. So by intensely tuning oneself in to subjective responses to things, you can c

The purpose is to scout the path and shift the discourse.

honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints o

It’s also important to acknowledge that the systems change or innovation scene is not the only place where change and innovation is happening. Real ch

The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de

People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

AI-first companies are going to change the world. I’m going into learning mode on the space. I will share what I learn in real time on this thread:

Elon Musk on taking risks: "This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every

You are only as good as your ability to test your riskiest assumptions as quickly as possible.

Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks: "If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on. It requires no courage. It r

Most critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that fur

In an overly digitized world, people embrace with intensity the few remaining ritualistic activities available to them. Halloween gets turned into som

‘only the new of which one tires. One never tires of the old.’

Rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history – and we still need them

THERE IS A GOD SHAPED HOLE IN OUR HEART, AND (THIS IS THE HERETICAL MOMENT) IN OUR ECONOMYWe know the millennial core answers to this God shaped hole.

No one talks about the way in which the world, in all of its bewildering capability, is, at every second, offering some detail that might lead to a ne

“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certai

hello, i'm v good at asking questions. it's one of the things i get most complimented on i think what i do is simple & easy for anyone to do: 1.

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

The Science Finally Catches Up: New Research Confirms ADHD as an Evolutionary Advantage, Not a Disease

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl

What is your play history?

We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte

Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want

Society is increasingly cutting the nourishing ties that attach us, and calling it innovation. I worry about how encouraged we are to do things effici

I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much t

How to Achieve Gender Equality

What does it mean to decolonize a museum?

These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture

Architecture without philosophy would become engineering. Architecture without aesthetics is engineering.

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The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism

Good and Bad Friction in DAO User Journeys: The DAO Discovery Process

"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod

we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and

Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de

What I’m proposing asks you to give up the possibility of earning more than you are owed, to instead find satisfaction in reaping exactly what you’ve

The concept of regeneration is inherently layered, complex and evolving. It can have spiritual, ecological and even medical connotations. Regardless o

In designing experiences, the cornerstone with which we start is the “who.” Who is this for? Who are they? What do they need? Where are they coming fr

“The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics

Psychology research is clear that the most reliable way to overcome psychological pain and discomfort is not to avoid it; it’s to gradually dimish the

The term “psychological safety” has been around since at least 1999, when Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard University published this influential paper on

Believing we’re separate, we seek control to remain safe. Releasing that belief, we discover our safety always lies in cooperation.

What education does is provide a curated experience to help you learn. Done well, it sifts through the myriad resources, possible paths, and common e

I have many friends who feel like they need a degree to do something they can already do without a degree MFA vs just write PsyD vs just coach PhD vs

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

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The most underrated note taking app is still the photo album. I can instantly recall what I was doing weeks or years ago. A single picture evokes a do

wispr (dictation tool) is amazing and i'm now using it 60%+ of the time when i would've typed before. i'm going to put my referral link below - if you