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From the outside, Substack's strategy has seemed to be the following: 1) Create a beautiful, simple blogging platform, which Substack most certainly is. 2) Very slowly release control of who can use Substack to create cachet. 3) Pay some people to post to the site, but not most of them. (Sub-strategy: Don't disclose who's working for Substack and w... See more

"The truth, however, is that you need not wait for some pleasant distraction to shift your mood. You can simply pay close attention to negative feelings themselves, without judgment or resistance. What is anger? Where do you feel it in your body? How is it arising in each moment? And what is it that is aware of the feeling itself? Investigating in ... See more

To lose a friendship over politics suggests that something is deeply disordered in our souls.

You can do it without “fancy” equipment; the built-in microphone will suffice in most cases. Speed-wise, Noah is speaking as he would speak to an audience; communicating his ideas

Helpful criticism is about making the world better. Unhelpful criticism is about making yourself feel better.

In fact, in his best-selling book Blockchain Revolution, Don Tapscott asks the question, ‘Why do you need a $60 billion company called Uber?’ when most of the process centralised by Uber could be automated, reducing the costs for upkeep of the platform and making it easier for drivers to create their own platforms?

Now that digital ownership is exploding by way of NFTs, people are seeing bigger financial and status opportunities online than offline. This is the biggest catalyst for living online we’ve seen to date. Individuals are building status and identity in the virtual world the way that they do in the physical world. Why own a Gucci bag to impress a few... See more

The Covid-19 effect on online learning could broaden the range of popular subjects, education experts say. But so far, training for the tech economy is where the digital-learning money lies. With more of work and everyday life moving online — some of it permanently — that will probably not change.

But today’s rich don’t generally wear the 2020 version of royal purple, something like parametrically fitted garments made of nanofibers embellished with synthetic mother of pearl (which might be the results of real growth). Instead, they wear $500 cotton t-shirts with inscrutable references and visual motifs pulled from a smörgås-moodboard that ma... See more