Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
elected leaders continue to insist that well-being be measured mostly by economic growth, and when the U.S. media breathlessly reports quarterly economic growth data, with increases deemed “good” and decreases deemed “bad.”
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Gary Cross • Why is free time still so elusive?
The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology.
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence a book by Max Tegmark
The Five Senses of Gentrification
makinganeighborhood.substack.com
urban planning and
Net neutrality is being threatened by internet service providers (ISPs), governments are cracking down on online content, and social media platforms are censoring users more than ever before.
Daniel Saito • Fighting back: Web3 as the ultimate catalyst of censorship resistance
Zhuangzi argues that we must first be disorientated by language to discover that higher knowledge is beyond words.
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
It’s time to acknowledge that we can’t “use our head” to store everything we need to know, and outsource the job of remembering to technology.
Atria Books • Building a Second Brain
I imagine some mythic women in floral dresses who simply slide into motherhood, goddesses unbothered by the smell of poop, at home in any damp cave. These are the “naturals”: the mom on a transatlantic flight handling three small children, or the unwashed breastfeeding mom who says she wouldn’t mind “another one.” But then there are others, such as... See more