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We learned that we're made of many little dead things, which make up bigger things that are not dead, for some reason, and that we're just another temporary stage in a history going back over a billion years.
Kurzgesagt • Optimistic Nihilism
The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief... See more
Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Everyone I know is scheming for the future. They’ve got big goals and get up every day and work like mad to try to achieve them. I’ve always found something odd about that: Despite all this effort, people don’t seem to think too much about the specifics of what would happen after their goal is achieved.
dynomight • Nobody optimizes happiness
The Universe has a history only because we are here to tell it.
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025
When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, “The future of art but we don’t give a fuck”). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important
... See moreThere are no new ingredients in the universe, and humans – however they may look – are made of roughly the same things we are.