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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
THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore
And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those
Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
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
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Unlike standard modern education, ritual doesn’t aim to teach us anything new; it wants to lend compelling form to what we believe we already know. It
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things ar
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
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
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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A
And I walked off you And I walked off an old me Oh me oh my I thought it was a dream So it seemed And now, breathe deep I'm inhaling You and I, there
Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista a
Walking lets you read the world — and much like the slow, contemplative mental processes involved in reading a book, the pace with which one moves thr
This is what nobody tells you: commitment is an act of agency. We often get through life comforted by the thought that we have the ability to make cho
our ability to bind our future selves to a future is what makes us agentic, rather than just moment-to-moment responders. Maybe the total inability to
the fear of commitment is really a failure of agency, of taking full responsibility for our choices and their consequences. A kind of learned helpless
The older I grow, the more convinced I become that commitment generates a kind of experiential wealth that can't be brute-forced into existence. There
In recent years, neuroimaging has provided evidence to suggest that imagining the future relies on much of the same neural machinery as remembering th
There is indirect evidence to support this idea. For instance, individuals tend to act in a way that is consistent with or constrained by how they hav
Particularly relevant to the idea of episodic simulation is the process of forming “implementation intentions” (Gollwitzer, 1999) which involve imagin
The distinctive feature of imagination, therefore, rests on its capacity of creating new mental images by combining and modifying stored perceptual in
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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
This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi
On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ
Meditation Tips for a Lifetime of Practice
When we’re mindful of what we feel in our body, she says, our mind naturally settles in the present. This happens without effort—and it makes us calme
Jerry Seinfeld: "You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be de
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.
"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh. There was a pause. "Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet. "No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't thi
Amal Dib “The spaces of safety that hold me and that I hold often fluctuate. Safety for me can sometimes mean being surrounded by others seeing faces
The Spiritual Child — Dr. Lisa Miller
As a kid did you ever stare into your own eyes in the mirror long enough to lose your sense of reality?
A child can spend an hour fascinated by light reflecting on a wall. Adults often require escalating stimulation because familiarity numbs perception.W
when the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.
A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren’t we all like that old bird
Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anythin
Silence always gives in to let noise take its place. That is the constant dance that they share.
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?
She was imprisoned by two words: what if. What if I’d known she was dying? What if I’d known I was about to lose her? But what-ifs don’t empower us. T
Parents often say, “I’d die for my child.” I heard a few of the parents in the grief group express the wish to trade places with their deceased childr
Tzutijil-initiated shaman Martín Prechtel correctly tells us that grief -for a person, for a country, for an ideal- is praise because it is the natura
The deeper into this you go, the weirder and more inexplicable it gets. Many experiences literally transcend or obviate language in their nature. Afte
Where are the mystagogues? Writing is mystagogy. It is leading oneself, or others, into a great mystery. Their own lives are a mystery. It is a good p
i used to be pretty 'traumatized' in the classic sense - nightmares, difficulty sleeping, etc. Over the course of a 1-2 years I managed to fix nearly
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” -Ken Wilber
The witch has turned from being a figure of alienation and marginalization to one of aspiration. No longer does the witch manage the divide between th
When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, m
Of course this is what museum culture does: it, depending on your point of view, loots historical artifacts from a context in which they are useful an
The repetition of the word “immersed” is interesting, as it suggests this is not something these women studied, that instead it was a liquid medium th
Focus as a thing we have v. Focus as something we do
you can't do anything interesting without breaking from consensus, and you can't break from consensus without looking like an idiot to the people insi
“The anditode to doom is curiosity.” -Ezra Klein
The state of technology is arguably the most compelling it's ever been on a philosophical level
The paradigm of acceleration fails to grasp the deeper human tension between action and contemplation. It’s a false binary, one that Benedict XVI (the
I didn’t feel comfortable inside the endlessness of it. I am the kind of writer who believes in taking the time I need to come up with something worth
“Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. Why do we so often miss what’s right in front of us, lost in
The writer Ted Chiang was once asked in an interview if he ever considered publishing more frequently. Chiang, one of the greatest living fiction writ
What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul, instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match some
when we stop rejecting who we are, there is freedom from the known. This freedom cultivates a space for a the meeting of who we truly are. The mind ha
To ask, every day, "What matters, in the end?" is to create the possibility of differentiated choice, the potential to overthrow the tyranny of our hi
The amount of people who seem to live as if cowardice were heavily rewarded really make me think that simply being brave has a greater effect on life
I notice this pattern constantly with my hypertrophied left hemisphere coaching clients: they're paralyzed needing to understand before they trust. Bu
Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane: Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring,
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves lik