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So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th
Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui
Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl
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.
There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigu
I am not less capable because I refuse to live in constant activation. I’m just less exploitable.
My body was not an obstacle to ambition, but the barometer for what sustainable ambition could look like now.
What people think are winning backgrounds: - Ivy League grad - good grades - after school activities Actual winning backgrounds: - compet
How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra) Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you tak
What is “talent?” Well, I suppose it’s the ability to do that which is excellent (that which astounds, amazes, and so on). It’s a bit circular, real
The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn
I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate
Every phase of life can be shopped for at Costco. Where else can you purchase a wedding ring, a baby carrier, and a casket? It follows your own life s
when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to im
While serving a life sentence in jail, Kaczynski wrote a little-known sequel to his manifesto, entitled “Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How”. In it he
As a society, we are so fully invested in capitalism, competition and algorithms that it’s almost impossible to pull ourselves out of the cycle to see
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
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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
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
“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
1/ The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about. The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be us
Whether it is through a VR headset, the manipulation of projectors, or clever set design, immersion fulfills our desire for escapism, instantly transp
Start in the future and work backward
If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as
Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th
The Questions Before the Questions
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun
Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing
A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu
anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim
Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagi
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to
If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac
look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other
Eating Ecosystems
According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal
In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.
Eating seasonally is about being present – weaving yourself into the earth you inhabit.
When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know pe
It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.
I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in some
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
“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human f
Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Mo
“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
What does it mean that OpenAI bought a media company? That doesn’t feel like a random acquisition. It feels like a sign that trusted voices, archives,
If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Tw
Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right communi
"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
On the one hand, Octavia Butler has this to say: “The only lasting truth is Change.” On the other hand, Bill Bernbach would counter as such: “A com
pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet
Something I’ve noticed, however, is that exclusively using TikTok doesn’t mean I’m only exposed to TikTok-specific trends and culture. In fact, many o
Introducing a Rocks, Sand, and Water Framework for AttentionWe always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?I imagine
Contribute your skills to an existing effort – make it possible. Build the website, raise the funds, recruit the talent, plan the events. As Bill McKi
They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow
Our society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not b
You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life
1/ Boundaries are not saying no. Or making sure something doesn't happen. Or distancing. Or even letting yourself have wants in the face of others'.
the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
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
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
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
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I spent seven years building a kid/ed-tech product and one critical thing I learned about the industry is this... No matter what they signal, most pa
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
