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When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we
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.
“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
I want more role models like Kevin Kelly. People that proudly whistle while they work. Who have boundless energy and healthy gums. Whose enthusiasm is
a parasocial relationship can become a social relationship by sending a DM
In Good Hands
When hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic values. Today we are
people still carve out community in the most hostile of places and subvert platforms to create space for human-first desires. We create solidarity inf
when a website, especially one that invites mass participation, goes offline or executes a huge dump of its data and resources, it’s as if a smallish
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
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.
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with
You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid
Books and standup comedy are the rare mediums that are usually created by a single person. Because of this they can be more daring and go to more inte
“Truly showing belief in others will buy them a ticket to someplace they never knew.” -h/t sean feeney
I like thinking small. I like thinking of my reader as an individual.And even if I did this out of sheer stubbornness at first, I’ve come to think thi
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
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
Instead of discussing whether the internet is good or bad, I suggest we start by asking: do you want to show me your internet?
That's the thing with the internet. It is not a singular place: the internet is made up by many internets. Some are connected, and some are not. This
»When I share websites I’ve made, people often respond with comments like “I wish the web were like this.” These reactions confuse me: I just made thi
Principle 2: Break up the conversation based on how, not whatNow that I’ve told you not to over-complicate your community architecture by introducing
There is often no compelling reason, even in online communities, to suggest people go into different rooms to discuss different topics.
A more sensible way to think about where conversations need to be broken up, that’s not topic, is format. In a physical space, the analogy might be—if
Intro to EGP
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
‘As we work to reverse these long-term socio-economic and socio-political trends to foster more connections to others, stronger communities, more pro-
Maybe what we need is not an object to be known but a cause of wonder.
If you insist that anything too common, anything come by too cheaply, must be boring, then all the wonders of the Singularity cannot save you. You wil