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We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to im

While serving a life sentence in jail, Kaczynski wrote a little-known sequel to his manifesto, entitled “Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How”. In it he

As a society, we are so fully invested in capitalism, competition and algorithms that it’s almost impossible to pull ourselves out of the cycle to see

Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints o

It’s also important to acknowledge that the systems change or innovation scene is not the only place where change and innovation is happening. Real ch

people need many points of contact with the natural world to be happy and AC loses a few of them which might be OK but all the others have been lost

I think people would be better off if they learned to use the whole earth. All five senses. the world is a very sensual place you know. People joke by

The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch

Many people were outraged by what they regarded as his non-parliamentary use of medieval laws to raise money. The most notorious was ship money. This

See beyond yourself whenever possible. See what happens when you de-center your own singular life and show up for the pains and joys of other people.

hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity

Our fates, whether we like it or not, acknowledge it or not, are intermingled. Though it is not immediately legible, we sink or swim together. Still,

So we all know that the hard boundary we place between ourselves and the world is somewhat artificial. Sure, on one level you are a separate being, di

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

How to Achieve Gender Equality

What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction

Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat

Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

Plant-based meat sales went up 23% when Kroger made one simple switch: they moved them from a vegetarian section to the meat section. Plant based is g

Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat

Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

Instead, Professor Kahneman favored an alternative that he termed “adversarial collaboration.” When people who disagree work together to test a hypoth

Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

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Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help

information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.

This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources

And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit know

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through

A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources

Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their

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Regenerative crypto economics

One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices

There’s this cool idea in software that you “ship your org chart” called Conway’s law: “Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce

What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information

PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagi

Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to

Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,