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Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been... See more

To question is to consider, not refute

2024-11-16

Tomorrow you have plans to go to an event with a friend. You made the plans a month ago. You ask your friend, “Do you still want to go?”

Your friend says, “What? You don’t want to? Then forget it. I’ll ask someone else!”

You say, “Wait! I never said I don’t want to! Just asking.”

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It's notable that I was reading the AlphaGo paper in support of a creative project of my own, namely, writing an article for Quanta Magazine. This is important: I find Anki works much better when used in service to some personal creative project.

STEIN GREENBERG: The reality is there are so many environments in which human beings and nature need to work together to either protect or steward key resources that are important both from an ecological perspective and from a human perspective. So for example, Rare’s biggest program is around coastal fisheries. There are small-scale fisheries all

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Entrepreneurship is a personal growth engine disguised as a business pursuit.