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I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
Great, great question. In the world of writing, everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Really? Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing . . . a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is everywhere. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the sys
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
The more AI automates building, the more builders will want to build
James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room”
Use history to understand the present.
How good we can transform and re-use buildings and areas that no longer fit our needs is a good criteria for future cities. Cities have been in constant evolution since Uruk became a city over five thousand years ago. There are walls in Lebanon that were built using Roman marble columns.
What are other examples like a caserio vasco?
The state is not society.
Socialist experiments consider the state as community and they’re not the same thing. Communal ownership is the same as state ownership. The state is a monarchy.
The Way, or the intentional path to doing what you love.