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I must hope that those who barely remember life before the internet, or never knew it at all, will find their way through the dazzle and disappointmen

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Book Report: The Disappearance of Ritual

Be authentic. Be you. Well, this is me, and my brain is full of tiny, hyperspecific fragments of a life I want to live, a person I dream of being, the

What if there's no essential, core self at all? What if identity is something you do rather than something you are?Contemporary psychology and philoso

Let’s imagine that a radical life-extension startup succeeds at developing a product for our deeply flawed, often inaccessible healthcare market, and

What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand th

Unless there are massive changes in terms of who is controlling the technology, deciding where resources should be funneled, and what kinds of product

The brain, Huron said, has two competing goals. One, the unconscious “fast path,” is to “react as fast as possible, especially to danger.” The other,

There’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain moments, when a favorite moment of a favorite song comes on, or when a turn of phrase

AI Safety Is More Than a Technical Problem

Generative AI for Development: A Compendium of Insights from Grand Challenges Innovators

People are becoming more average over time because we’re all consuming the same content curated for us by TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and so on. Thi

This shift towards a global sameness, driven by digital platforms' algorithms, challenges the very notion of personal taste. As these platforms priori

The idea of cognitive bias in psychology works in an analogous way. A cognitive bias is a systematic error in how we think, as opposed to a random err

But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find

a meditative yet exuberant journey through the world within and the world without, inspired by the Japanese notion of tsuumogami: the soul, or spirit,

"To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of 'real materials'- to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time the

Part of this orientation involves identifying some of feminism’s hazards. The sexual revolution, she writes, did not give women more freedom so much a

One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the r

You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meanderin

To relationships, I commit easily, almost instinctively, digging channels so deep they’re visible from space. I find endless fascination in the daily

Insights from Byung-Chul Han: The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential soc

But the most exciting outcome was this: I became someone who could just come up with an idea for a post, start writing, and finish. For most of my lif

tech journalist Max Read notes, some of the best newsletters offer “a particular attitude or perspective, a set of passions and interests, and even an

But the same dynamics that turn a slightly lonely young man into a seething misogynist—recommendation algorithms; social contexts that concentrate and

Holding up Mary Somerville as a model of possibility, Fuller argued that when unblinded by the “narrowness or partial views of the home circle” and gr

we open each meeting by asking a simple question: what is keeping you alive today? this allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us

Questions revolving around the economic inequalities hardwired into marriage by the collusion of social convention and the law Maria popova, Figuring

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha

Do you have a writing routine? I meditate first thing in the morning, then work out. I do much of my reading at the gym – something about the kinetic

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