If we create a world of more exclusive groups based on even more exclusive assets what have we really done for humanity?
Is this what we are calling decentralization?
The danger of education as entertainment is that students will learn that learning should be a form of entertainment, and that anything worth learning can take the form of entertainment, and ought to.
Unsurprisingly, none of my childhood friends who took those piano lessons are professional pianists today. Nor was that ever the goal for the parents who enrolled them. That’s because creative expression is often used as a gateway to something more practical, and is rarely accepted as something practical in itself.
And so anything that influences the culture can have a great impact on the world and on people's financial interests, and we're going to see more and more sophisticated efforts from all kinds of actors to do so systematically and deliberately. This is the darker conclusion of the importance of non-monetary social motivations - they create the battl... See more
What is the best interview you’ve read, seen or heard?
Some for me
Bill Moyers + Joseph Campbell
Paul Cronin + Werner Herzog
Francisco Varela + Dalai Lama
Tim Ferriss + Jerry Seinfeld
Oprah + Elie Wiesel
What would you throw on the pile?
scale is challenging - you can do something that 95% of people like, but the remaining 5% are literally a hundred thousand people who are now *angry* - we're not evolved to process emotions at this scale (physiologically) and i see it stop many (tragically) from wanting to create