nico λ
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just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
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Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
Just as I have never met anyone who chose to become addicted, neither have I met anyone whose addictions did not, at their onset at least, provide for some essential human need.
Gabor Mate • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
That people show off these illegible globs in public only makes sense from a signaling perspective: They are saying, “look at how many nodes I have in my brain, amazing nodes, I have so many nodes that a peon such as yourself can’t even guess what’s going on here!”
Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit
nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine_ Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning - Meghan O'Gieblyn
A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
On Building a Founding Team
For Lasch, these developments represented a betrayal of democracy: citizenship had been replaced by individualism; virtue had been supplanted by an ethic of material success; belief in equality and in civic obligations had given way to claims of individual liberty and an emphasis upon autonomy. Curiously, while the spirit of aristocratic generosity... See more
Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope - First Things
