Nick deWilde
@nickdewilde
I'm the co-founder of Invisible College, a school that helps people learn, invest and build in web3. I also publish a monthly newsletter called the Jungle Gym.
Nick deWilde
"The problem isn’t the screens, it’s what's behind them. What screens have enabled is a gradual shifting of our locus of entertainment from internal to external. From entertainment being something we generate to something generated for us. And as a consequence, we’re losing the ability to entertain ourselves, relying on increasingly stimulating sou... See more
Infinite Play • The Locus of Entertainment
Our culture is attempting to glorify mental illness as a badge of honor, but the reality of living with these diseases is far from glorious.
Freddie DeBoer • Latest Episodes | Honestly Podcast
How the meta of The Great Online Game is changing in the light of a recession.
The Jungle Gym • Is it time to quit the Great Online Game?
- complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some p... See more
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some p... See more
Mark P Xu Neyer • Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins
Mental Health and
"It's hard to internalize just how good we have it because our own life experiences are our homeostasis, our base point for comparison. We read about the hardships of history, but we don't experience them. We don't feel them. How could we? Decades of war, sickness, and hardship have been reduced to paragraphs and documentaries."