Maja Slotwinska

The point being: Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.

I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get ... See more

People are hungry to experience life for themselves. To experience awe, seek wonder, observe mystery. To stop caring about the manicured, magical, made-up lives of others. To refuse to optimize their life for how it looks to others and instead how it feels to them .

I might be dead wrong. About the end of our online era. Maybe it'll only accelerate. Maybe in a decade everyone will be wearing their Apple goggles to buy condos in the metaverse with their Ethereum and livestream their trip to Costco, as AI runs half the economy and writes all of our books.

In the short term pessimists look smart, but optimists mo... See more

I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh is to get good at both paying attention and nurturing compassion; if you don’t notice, you can’t give a shit. But the huh is only half the equation. You gotta go huh, alright — the “alright,” the follow-up, the openness to what comes next is where the cascade lives... See more