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“So I’ve been going ahead with blind faith and a little of my usual delusion that tells me that everything will work out in ways I can’t yet imagine - because I believe that is what happens when you pursue what genuinely lights you up, and you put in the work with no excuses, because you know you owe it to yourself to at least try” 🌷

Little things I do to keep my brain sharp instead of relying on AI to think for me: Memorize verification codes instead of copying/pasting them. Give myself at least an hour to come up with the name of something I can’t remember before Googling it. I usually come to the answer on my... See more

Love it! I firmly believe in building little inconveniences into our lives (for example, I turned off all the predictive/corrective settings on my messaging app, and now it takes me twice as long to text people). With everything being so easy, if we don’t intentionally make things harder, we’ll crumble at the slightest provocation.

American artist Jane Fisher’s (woman on underwater steps) b. 1961

https://newmeans.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-total-destruction-of-trust?r=1tdu9h&utm_medium=ios

In my PhD on wonder, I built on Rachel Carson’s argument that “the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race.” I tried to demonstrate that poems are one of our best tools to instill wonder, humility, and a... See more