Paolo Danese

From U3’s perspective, humans seem to be almost stationary objects, like plants or rocks.

Bezos’s 2021 press conference, after having just returned from his 11-minute trip to the outer atmosphere in a penis-shaped rocket made by his Blue Origin company, is telling in this regard. Dressed in a blue space uniform topped with a cowboy hat to emphasize his new status as a space pioneer, he stated to the assembled press: “I want to thank eve... See more

Seasteading Institute’s floating islands do not evoke the millions of human deaths resulting from a climate shaped by perpetual tsunamis and raging super-fires. Their polished computer models instead function like Apple products, which separate the ruthless reality of the Foxconn factory gulags from the user’s product experience.

• There is no substitute for passion. You also cannot force passion.


• Be authentic. The truth is always easier to maintain than a lie or a fabrication.


• Follow your bliss. This sounds hokey but it’s true. Challenge yourself.


• Live in alignment with your values. Alignment is one of the most important concepts I’ve ever learned.


• Keep it real. Experim

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The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more