Marta Pyr
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Marta Pyr
An easy way to think about this is many are constantly eating a form of cultural Big Mac every day, while Michelin-quality food is just a click away, but essentially invisible because it requires a tiny amount more work. They don’t even know they’re doing this, how this affects their mind, or what they’re missing.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
. Remixes and memes abound, but almost no one shares anything weird, original or different. People wake up, perhaps with ambitions to make unique choices they believe are their own, only to find that the options have been filtered, curated, and ‘tailored to existing tastes’ by algorithms that claim to know them best.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
It’s interesting because a reposted meme must have been created by someone. So, some people are original creators. However, I think it comes down to volume and proportion, how many reposts are there for every original post. 10x, 100x, 1000x. I would add that the incentives/commercialisation of the content creator only fuels the volume dynamic.
I am aiming to be as optimistic as I possibly can because a big dose of optimism is required to make better things
Eliot Peper • The Thursday Murder Club
In infinite games, there is no finish line. No point where you can declare victory and be done. The meaning isn’t in the outcome—at least for me, it’s in the continuous unfolding, the endless discovery of what’s possible, the deepening of one’s capacity to learn and serve
Do You Have to Grind to Be Great?
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it
Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about
When motion picture cameras and projectors arrived in the late 19th century, people used static cameras to film stage plays and create “animated photographs” of everyday scenes, like laborers working in a factory. But within a few years, new editing techniques, close-ups, camera motion, and special effects were used to link scenes together into a... See more
AI Isn’t Only a Tool—It’s a Whole New Storytelling Medium
We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster, because it isn’t within your power to force reality’s pace as much as you feel you need to, and because the faster you go, the faster you’ll feel you need to go. If you can let those fantasies... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
But these top-down, willpower-heavy systems sucked the joy from everything , even the theoretically thrilling bits, leaving no room for spontaneity, or the rhythms of inspiration, or my shifting moods.
The Imperfectionist: The right dose of self-discipline
Oliver Burkeman Imperfectionist Newsletter