Mike Monroe
@monroe
Mike Monroe
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
collabfund.com • Ideas That Changed My Life
Our identity, then, is not, after all, something we can bestow on ourselves. We cannot discover or create an identity in isolation, merely through some kind of internal monologue. Rather, it is negotiated through dialogue with the moral values and beliefs of some community. We find ourselves in and through others. “We never get to the bottom of
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
In my mind, pity isn’t even analogous to compassion. Pity is just the paternalistic cousin of contempt. It allows us to see others as “those less fortunate than ourselves” (a term I loathe). Pity keeps the other person at a distance and me in a rarified state of satisfaction.... Compassion, on the other hand, draws us close.
Compassion Not Pity
I worked in the Writing Center in college, and whenever a student came in with an essay, we were supposed to make sure it had two things: an argument (“thesis”) and a reason to make that argument (“motive”). Everybody understood what a “thesis” is, whether or not they actually had one. But nobody understood “motive”. If I asked a student why they... See more
Adam Mastroianni • 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
... See moreThe irony of most of today’s loyalty programs is that they aren’t about loyalty at all. They have more to do with economic calculation and gain management than with the true affinity for a brand.
Ana Andjelic • From Loyalty to Membership
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look
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