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We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet.

Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the ocean, a common record of human thought, wisdom, and knowledge. We often believe that if something cannot be found on the internet, it doesn't exist.

It's insane to think this because so much has been... See more

I think about all the effort and energy that goes into finding references and doing research, and I think it’s a lost art form. I started my blog and the mood board page because I thoroughly enjoyed the tedious work of sifting through hundreds of images only to find a few that could be useful. Now, everything is quick and no one wants to put that... See more

So what makes us human?

Here’s the analogy I would give. If you think about all of our ancestors from hundreds or thousands of years ago—what would they think of us? They see us pushing buttons on a computer, then getting in a room with other people and just talking, and we call that a meeting, and that’s what we call work. Meanwhile, they’re out... See more

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 insight than it seems.

Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happens before progress. That is the linear theory of innovation.

So Isaac Newton comes up with his three laws of... See more

the apparently hard problems (chess, calculus) turned out to be computationally easy, while the apparently easy ones (recognizing a face, walking across a room) turned out to be hard. I asked: what if the scale doesn't stop at zero-difficulty? What if there's a negative range — problems that require not just absence of intelligence but active... See more