Paige
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Paige
All living organisms from the humble amoeba to the human are born with devices designed to solve automatically, no proper reasoning required, the basic problems of life.
Antonio Damasio
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination o... See more
I think digital scrolling induces a kind of blackout. Not in the way alcohol causes one, but in the sense that time disappears without anything worth remembering. There are days I can barely recall—not because they were traumatic, but because they were simply unmemorable. A digital fog. Hours passed without touching anything real. No texture. No de... See more
Deciding whether or not to be pleased or disappointed by something you’ve done, or failed to do, is an archetypal case of someone else’s task. It’s never your job to spare someone the experience of disappointment, provided that the action that triggers it is, in other ways, the right one to take.
Olive Burkeman
Being present might sometimes (even often) entail, contacting painful thoughts and feelings, this is also where “the good stuff “lives. Vitality, joy, authentic connection… These are present moment, experiences that we miss when we are stuck in our heads.
Darrah Westrup and M Joann Wright
Being too ‘anti-modernity’/wanting to ‘retvrn’ is actually cowardice. Courage and hope are about living in the times we’re in and trying to make them better with an orientation toward the future.
Byronic Heroinex.comPeople keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
Austin Kleon • AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon
People who think art is a consumable that can be produced by machines forget that it is, in fact, an act of communication across time and space between mortal beings. It creates a relationship between them whose liveliness and dynamism probably has to do with the receiver consciously and unconsciously retracing the making of the piece and judging,
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