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This is not the proverbial “firehose” of information. It is a firing squad.
It is hard to think clearly in this environment. It is near impossible to excel, to live and work optimally and meaningfully, in such a hell. This environment is the human equivalent of a distributed denial-of-service attack — too many requests and the system shuts down.
It is hard to think clearly in this environment. It is near impossible to excel, to live and work optimally and meaningfully, in such a hell. This environment is the human equivalent of a distributed denial-of-service attack — too many requests and the system shuts down.
Inputs and the Information Firing Squad | Jeremy Bassetti
All the Seas Were Ink, describing how the daily routine of Talmud study carried her through challenging years in her own life—and her book inspired many less-traditional people who had previously assumed that Talmud study wasn’t for them.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Haidt is soft-spoken but not meek. His words are measured, and when he listens he is one of the few people I’ve ever met who actually stops to consider everything that he is being told.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Scott speculates that “the greater the pretense of and insistence on an officially decreed micro-order, the greater the volume of nonconforming practices necessary to sustain that fiction.”
The slovenly wilderness Rob Horning 11.30.2023
The slovenly wilderness Rob Horning 11.30.2023
2023 A+, Models, & Best Articles
As a libertarian who holds the New Testament as a seminal text, Thiel seeks to increase individual freedoms while preventing runaway Mimetic violence.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Not long after arriving at George Mason, Cowen read “Sexual Personae”by Camille Paglia, a buccaneering polemic about Western art across millennia. Although he didn’t agree with Paglia’s ideas, he saw this was the kind of book he wanted to write. Within months he was drafting a lively, popular history of markets and high culture. In 2003 he and... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
We can explore the ways in which our attention is generated, manipulated, valued and degraded. Sometimes attention might simply be a lens through which to read the events of the moment. But it can also force us toward a better understanding of how our minds work or how we value our time and the time of others. Perhaps, just by acknowledging its... See more