sari
@sari
making Sublime — for you and for me.
sari
twitter.com
First, we can all try to engage more actively with the material world, not merely the digital or natural world. Go ahead and pick an industrial phenomenon and learn more about it. Learn more about the history of aviation, and what it took to break the sound barrier; gaze at the container ships as they sail into port, and keep in mind that they... See more
danwang.co • Definite optimism as human capital
Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in
... See moreAlice Schroeder • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
In the bundled model, the training provider provides almost all services for the student: from financing (usually by raising huge amounts of VC funding) to the content (curated from existing resources, the current standard), mentor network, community and placement. Upon successful placement, the provider receives revenue through an Income-Sharing... See more
Transcend Network • The Placement Economy 📮Transcend Newsletter XXI
Ugh, I can’t believe I had to live/work through the deaths of both print media AND online media and now possibly television and film too?? Can I just have a job?! Like, no offense to my beloved Butt News subscribers, but there’s no way that selling direct-to-consumer humorous movie reviews at a freelance tax rate and paying $600/month for my own... See more
Lindy West • Butt News #24: Never Been Kissed
Gig Economy and
sigh - this is true. There’s no way that any of us can afford to pay $5/month to access the work of all the writers, chefs, cartoonists, podcasters, etc... whose output we occasionally enjoy.
Being with somebody for an hour is much easier than paying attention to somebody for an hour. The former requires only physical (or virtual) proximity, and we do it every day. The latter happens only rarely. It requires us to donate all our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual energy to being with another person. I can recall only a few occasions... See more
Michael Austin • The Sacrament of Attention
Languishing is the neglected middle child of mental health. It’s the void between depression and flourishing — the absence of well-being. You don’t have symptoms of mental illness, but you’re not the picture of mental health either. You’re not functioning at full capacity. Languishing dulls your motivation, disrupts your ability to focus, and... See more
Adam Grant • Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It's Called Languishing - The New York Times
“The most powerful antidepressant is doing for other people”