Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
As the workforce increasingly evolves from muscle to mental, and rote tasks are increasingly handled by robots or computers, humans will be increasingly required for our emotional intelligence and empathy.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
I think we are moving away from the era of social media and into an era of online micro-communities. More intentional, less chaos. Smaller, but more valuable. More boundaries, more containment.
We were never made to read the unhinged thoughts of hundreds of strangers each day, but we were made to gather around fires... See more
Laura Matsue Guenthersubstack.comI’ve always asked myself if there is a social media app that doesn’t reward looks or your going to the gym, but rather serves as proof that you do the introspective work, a gym for the mind. I may have found it. Hello Sublime
To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying, and they comprehend what we say, it’s because our brains have, to some degree, aligned
between bites of pizza, i lamented to andrew (fellow man of the ‘sletter) that i felt i wasn’t taking full advantage of new york.
if you’re paying $3500 for a shoebox you better be getting more out of the city than just feeling in on the latest nolitadirtbag meme.
if you’re paying $3500 for a shoebox you better be getting more out of the city than just feeling in on the latest nolitadirtbag meme.
you're $5 away from an asymmetric life
We have seen that the amount of time a father spends with a child is “one of the strongest predictors of empathy in adulthood.”6 Teaching a child to treat boundaries seriously teaches him or her to respect the needs of others.