Sublime

As people’s gazes continue to fall to their screens and communication is truncated into bite-size text messages, the human beings who can still hold the attention of an audience and teach and speak in an entertaining way possess enormous power.

Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.

Proposition: Embrace Seasonality

The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.

Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.

“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it’s because they are witnesses.”

This appears to fit, it seemed to me, with what we see on social media—if you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.