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@VitalikButerin Podcasts give access to knowledge which would not otherwise have been shared, since most interesting thinkers are to busy doing things to write down most of their insights. Con: it is often hard to extract knowledge by listening. But it generates an ambient milieu which is good.
Henrik Karlssontwitter.comFor human beings, simply put, the default state is happiness... [A]s long as their most basic needs are met—no immediate hunger, no immediate fear, no scary isolation, no physical pain or enduring sleeplessness—they live in the moment, perfectly happy... All you needed was no reason to be unhappy. Which is another way of saying: Happiness is the
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A few years ago, I saw a pattern across a team of writers I worked with: they were spending a lot of time and energy on really good first drafts of their work. In my mind, a v1 is a rough mockup to play with possible directions and prompt debate — the linguistic equivalent of popsicle sticks, cardboard, and duct tape. But I could sense them
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If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
on the other hand, i don’t really believe in obligation to the past, especially because obligation is often used to guilt or pressure people into specific behaviors, especially because that guilt or pressure often results in needless anxiety.
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Facebook is context collapse - the social graph includes so many people. TikTok's social graph isn't built on a graph of people you know which avoids the context collapse.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
The pandemic will also likely accelerate the big-business takeover of the economy. In the early innings of this crisis, the most resilient companies include blue-chip retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Dollar General, Costco, and Home Depot, all of whose stock prices are at or near record highs.
The Atlantic • The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever
Can intellectual humility be cultivated? I believe so. Intellectual humility recognizes the limits of one’s intellect, how easily it errs, and the sheer number of things that we do not yet know. But intellectual humility is also the acceptance that we often need more time to digest and understand something—even of our own experiences in life—before... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
If these patterns sound familiar it is because they are the patterns of a failed response to a disruptive change. The idea that everything stays the same except for a few changes around the edges caused every incumbent to lose in the face of step-function change. The ideas in this essay might not be the best experiments to run and the suggestions... See more