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- Jerry Seinfeld once said, when asked how he felt about aging, “I think if you’re a little lucky in life you should enjoy getting older…when you’re young you can’t see what’s going on so well. You get older, you walk into a room and you see who people are faster.”
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog
- Most people don’t want their information mediated by bloated, monopolistic, surveilling tech companies, but they also don’t want to go all the way back to a time before them. What we really want is something in between. The evolution of Google Search is unsettling because it seems to suggest that, on the internet we’ve built, there’s very little ro... See more
from Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up? by Charlie Warzel
Though we labor with our minds, this place we can relax in was built by someone who can work with his hands. And his work is as noble as ours. I think the poet owes something to the guy who builds the cabin for him.
from Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
- 1st Place = Home
from Y2k-20 Will Come In 3rd Place by Reggie James
- Research reveals that the higher you score on an IQ test, the more likely you are to fall for stereotypes, because you’re faster at recognizing patterns. And recent experiments suggest that the smarter you are, the more you might struggle to update your beliefs.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
You are Microsoft lawyers: you are about as far inside the machine, inside the system, as a human being can get. And as Joseph Campbell said, “Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
from I Wrote a Story for a Friend - By Julian Gough by theeggandtherock.substack.com
- Instead of presuming that optimal institutional solutions can be designed easily and imposed at low cost by external authorities, I argue that "getting the institutions right" is a difficult, time-consuming, conflict-invoking process.
from Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Elinor Ostrom
- This way of working isn’t for everyone.
from No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees by Sahil Lavingia
A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
from The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin