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• Death is the human physical machine failing 


• There is no law of nature that says the machine must fail 


• Tim Urban is excited for the time when the person can decide when their machine fails 


• He thinks that people will look back on death, as it happens today, as barbaric 


• The ultimate achievement is humans dying when they are read

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Expanding on this idea of the online persona, we increasingly have the tools and infrastructure to utilize the exhaust of (now increasingly public) data created by online participation. When our identity is tied to a wallet or blockchain proof of transaction, others can verify our past online activities and presence. This means that consumer compan... See more

In product design, your goal is to reduce time-to-value for users. The UX should be clear and simple.

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

One of my favorite lines from Walter Ong's classic book, Orality and Literacy, is "Writing heightens consciousness." I think that applies to what you're describing about the nature of conversation. Writing, that is externalizing thought in this quasi permanent symbolic way, makes us more aware of its nature and possibilities than the exchange of ev... See more

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