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We’re meant to experience emotional pain so we can release it. No other reason.

..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World

As the world around us becomes increasingly complex, chaotic, and confounding, writing remains one of the most reliable tools we have to root ourselve

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The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism

There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigu

I am not less capable because I refuse to live in constant activation. I’m just less exploitable.

My body was not an obstacle to ambition, but the barometer for what sustainable ambition could look like now.

Sometimes, earning less and bringing back time is just as precious as making more money.

Art critic Jonathan Crary’s book 24/7 explores how we entered a culture that battles against rest and time itself. A nonstop 24/7 culture that never t

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

We all benefit from a future imprinted by curious Gen Z.

Humanity needs Gen Z’s ideas and dreams to shape the future, which means giving them a seat at the table

Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future

LY Corporation has been digging through the data for Pokémon Sleep, and the overall results show that users have been resting easy and well since the

Two weeks of 20-minute yoga nidra sessions led to a higher percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep and better memory, decision-making, and abstraction

The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.

creating conditions for collective intelligence to thrive.

I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education

the desire to connect things together

A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook

Barcelona’s Superblocks: Putting People at the Centre | CityChangers.org

I think that the era of rigid zonal segregation is over. No longer can a city be simply divided into a series of discrete places: the place where I wo

Host: And of course, the luxury sector spans over so many different products. But what do you think the definition of luxury is?Bernard Arnault: First

to be successful, you have to have the combination between modernity and timelessness.

How Hermès Sells "Time"

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

The imminent death of bilateral ODI cricket

1/ The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about. The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be us

Whether it is through a VR headset, the manipulation of projectors, or clever set design, immersion fulfills our desire for escapism, instantly transp

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System

What if Anxiety Is a Habit, Not a Disorder?

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

Toronto’s Scrapped Smart City Reflects Distrust in Tech

“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human f

Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Mo

Lots of theories have been tried, and lots of them have been given up because of something that looks like contradictory evidence. But the evidence mi

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

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In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

Architecture without philosophy would become engineering. Architecture without aesthetics is engineering.

John Pawson - Homepage

Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impo

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)

It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downwa

Intentional leisure is not the absence of labor but the presence of purpose—the freedom to practice active rest that heals as an exploration that cult

“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential ass

Applying detergents (soaps) to our skin and hair every day disrupts a sort of balance between skin oils and the bacteria that live on our skin. When y

evolutionarily, why would we be so disgusting that we need constant cleaning? And constant moisturizing and/or de-oiling? If we do more to allow our o

12,167 hours of washing our bodies. That’s how much life you use, if you spend 20 minutes per day washing and moisturizing your skin and hair (and you

What does it mean to decolonize a museum?

And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience.

It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individu

Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else’s. The fact of the matter is I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to

At the Institute for the Future we believe that the value of futures thinking is not in predicting the future (something no one can do), but in imagin

Cayce Pollard as the positive archetype for how to navigate volatility. So by intensely tuning oneself in to subjective responses to things, you can c

The purpose is to scout the path and shift the discourse.

honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??

Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal

Meditation Tips for a Lifetime of Practice

Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight cu

Consumer founders today are solving for abundance. Too much food, pollution, stimulation, and connections leads to obesity, climate change, mental hea

Eating Ecosystems

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal

In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.

Eating seasonally is about being present – weaving yourself into the earth you inhabit.