Paolo Danese

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

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

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

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.