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“I almost never wept for him, I just stopped looking at the sky the way I used to.“ —Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

Modern AI systems cannot be made to prioritize human well-being or follow any given set of rules reliably. This is often referred to as the alignment

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work

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sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowle

A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording func

“Go, young men to grow wise and wise men to stay young, not West nor East nor North nor South, but anywhere that men are not. For we all need, profoun

“These are the times in life—when nothing happens—but in quietness the soul expands.” —Wilderness, Rockwell Kent

There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway dec

For children only the present instant exists. For that child the present doesn’t exist for the sake of the future.

In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT h

“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, b

"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it'

If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated,

Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information. After you collect a bunch of inform

Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in t

'Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when y

MIYAZAKI: They are trying to shorten childhood, which is the best time of one’s life. I’m afraid the world of children changes when they learn how to

What you learn about the world through fairy tales is to accept things that may not make obvious sense. Trust that there is order behind them, and by

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” — C.S. Lewis

'Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when y

“Resilience is the nature of living beings.” —Starhawk, The Earth Path

Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at t

Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work. —Th

As John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic. social media is robotic, formulaic. ev

As Kevin Abosch, the Irish conceptual artist and pioneer of blockchain art, aptly put it: “The wise artist doesn’t fear emergent technology, but rathe