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If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we’d desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.
Robert Sapolsky • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Complexity basically means that everything is circuitous and hard to understand. Hard to understand means that the things that lead to the things you want aren't the things you want. They're very complex. So you need to do things like work on vacuum tubes to get to computers because vacuum tubes are in the first computers, even though vacuum tubes... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
Andre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
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It struck me that there is a third way between opening everything up to everyone and simply keeping traditional staid institutions & models — finding a way to have an inclusive system that allows for intimacy & curation (read: “exclusivity”) within it. Sofar Sounds as a system is incredibly inclusive. An individual Sofar Sounds event is incredibly... See more
David Litwak • Inclusive Exclusivity - Self-Cancelling Greek Life And Our Broken Vocabulary Around Curation (Cafe Society Dinner Discussion #11)
Content consumption habits in the age of COVID (…beyond just Netflix while you work)
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Meetup.com is most appealing to people who share some philosophical outlook but have no support from the broader culture.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
So I’m taking my belated gap year, I’m “dropping out” of the tech career ladder. At some point you run out of excuses (save more money, figure out immigration stuff, also these layoffs, also the uncertainty, and what if you just spiral, or what if you fail, blah blah blah). By the end it felt less like a decision and more like an inevitability: I
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