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Books I want to remember and The Opposite of Lonliness
Priya Parker Gatherings.
I struggle to recall the name Encounterism.
Lonelines
Jacob Falkovich says that single people often seek out similarity when complementarity is what makes relationships cohere long-term. It’s a great observation. But how to operationalize it? Maybe: look for someone you can’t initially understand, but also don’t feel like walking away from.
Sasha Chapin • Getting married soon
Maybe: look for someone you can’t initially understand, but also don’t feel like walking away from.
Patience and listening are good. Some craziness is useful,
Psychedelic therapies seem to be changing this
Below the Line • Paul Austin on Microdosing and the Future of Psychedelics
Made me smile and feel like 10 again!
In my local bookshop whilst browsing in the interiors I found a sealed blue envelope in one of the books. It wasn't addressed to anyone and there wasn't another one in other copies of the same book. I felt it was for me to open!! Not quite the words or message I'd hoped for but an enchanting experience.
t doesn’t help that the two most impressive implementations of AI for real work - Claude’s artifacts and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter - are often hidden and opaque
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
With a bucket list that includes basically every country on this planet, how do you decide which one to go to next? How can you possibly choose when there’s such an overload of possibilities and offers? Are you going to go by what you have been recommended? Do you pick a place you’ve read or heard about? Or simply one that is warm and sunny and... See more
The Difficulties of Choosing a Travel Destination – Global Introvert
Fargo - Bridge Tournament - Prisencolinensinainciusol (Adriano Celentano)
youtu.beAristotle held contemplation as the highest human capacity, ranking it above activity, because it involves thinking about the cosmos, which far exceeds in beauty and complexity any work of human hands. From his perspective, actually reading a book—the work of human hands—would not be true contemplation. I do not follow this Aristotelian definition... See more
Orality, the book, and the computer: What happens to 'literature'?
When you're looking at any mountain, you're looking at its vertical exposure. The Rockies rest on a massive plateau that is already often nearly a mile high. Even western Kansas is 4500 feet high. So, if you look at say Pikes Peak, a mountain that's about 14, 500 feet, you may be standing on a flat prairie to the east that is already 5000' high.... See more