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- The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six time scales. But the unit of survival is different at each of the six time scales. On a time scale of years, the unit is the individual. On a time scale of decades, the unit is the family. On a time sc... See more
from Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by Stewart Brand
- “Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to life.... See more
from Natural Intelligence by Thomas Klaffke
Let us try a thought experiment which might make this clearer. In order to calculate the rate of economic growth, it is necessary to treat all of the activities in which money is handed over as essentially interchangeable. According to the World Bank, agriculture currently makes up around 4% of global GDP. Seen in these terms, the growing of food i
... See morefrom Helpless Growth by Dougald Hine
- But because adults conceal their flaws, and at the same time insist on high standards of behavior for kids, a lot of kids grow up feeling they fall hopelessly short. They walk around feeling horribly evil for having used a swearword, while in fact most of the adults around them are doing much worse things.
from Lies We Tell Kids
The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling
Stories and Inspirational Bites for Daily Living
Want to get moved? This will.
- "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."
(Ursula K. Le Guin)from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal
Injury prevention plays a key role in keeping children safe, but emerging research suggests that imposing too many restrictions on children’s outdoor risky play hinders their development.
from Risky Play and Children’s Safety: Balancing Priorities for Optimal Child Development by Brussoni, Mariana
- On Luck
"'Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky' is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
-- Sam Altman I know it’s tempting to believe some future moment has your happiness. That, someday, you’ll figure out how to solve your problems and finally arrive in that place where you can really enjoy things. But your life has already begun. This is it. We don’t know what happens once we die but, even if we lived forever, all we would ever be able to experie
... See morefrom How to Enjoy Your Problems by Chelsea Harvey Garner