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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

to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

But it also means that the most harebrained, craziest, weirdest idea in the world, the most esoteric passion that you have is probably with eight bill

the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or wa

This is Mackenzie and this is my substack where I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT. I could say that I’m a writer, or a diarist, or a former viral stuntress, o

Make your future so irresistible, it becomes inevitable.

/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris: Why are we doing this?  Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity. What’s the simplest 

I think one of the big questions of this decade Is how do you become “post-algorithmic” While remaining economically viable

What is the real cost and benefit of the technology? How likely is the solution to not only work but also be practical enough to disrupt an entire ind

How do you access your submerged ideas? How do you share them authentically and without fear? And how do you put yourself out there without wanting to

This is why writing is important. It’s harder to fool yourself that you understand something when you sit down to write about it and it comes out all

Step 1 Pick a topic Step 2 Read and/or discuss with others (a bit) Step 3 Explain and defend my current

Second-Hand Living Adventure begets inspiration. But it’s easy to fall into the trap of feeling like watching adventure can beget inspiration. You g

“It’s harder to imagine how something might go well than go badly,” he says. But we do not need to passively accept our fate as if we have no control

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Fortunately, when you started you were close: we don’t need you to replace us, we need you to help us find each other

The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs y

2026 Finished Books: Katabasis, RF Kuang There is no Antimemetics Division, QNTM The Dispossessed, Ursula k le Guin Origins, Dan Brown What You are Lo

Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with—rather than in competition with—the world

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomatoes stuffed with rice, tuna and anchovy

The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille: In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer u

The distance between knowing and becoming haunts our most consequential choices.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. ~ Sylvia Plath

Because what more do we have besides our intentions?

What allows us to invent amazing things is the seeker inside of us searching for truth

The Buddhist idea of Conditionality is known as Pratītyasamutpāda, or Dependent Arising. In other words, nothing exists independently; everything is i