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- "The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
from Tweet by David Perell
- Three-quarters of global heating is caused by burning fossil fuels. Everything else we talk about – planting trees, carbon captures, carbon offsets – is just rearranging deckchairs.
The thing we’ve got to do to avoid hitting the iceberg is to end the fossil fuel industry as quickly as we can. The problem with not protecting the interest of the worki... See morefrom Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’ by Ian Tucker
A Fremen proverb from Dune by Frank Herbert :
"Be prepared to appreciate what you meet."
Source: Dune
from 3-2-1: How to Be Consistent, the Value of Beauty, and Designing for Relaxation by James Clear
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
Let me be clear: there is no way to make social media safe for children by just making the content less toxic. It’s the phone-based childhood that is harming them, regardless of what they watch . Kids need to be freed from the grip of smartphones and social media, especially through early puberty. This is why two of the four norms I propose for sol
... See morefrom Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation Is a Red Herring by Jon Haidt
Traditionally, myth and story has been one of the most important ways people gain a sense of ‘being at home in the world’ that we now know is so crucial to our psychological well being. And fundamental to this is the kind of attention it requires: a deep, abiding presence.
from Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It by Alexander Beiner
- They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they a... See more
Becoming enlightened, in the Buddhist sense of the term, would entail wholly ridding yourself of the twin illusions from which people tend to suffer: the illusion about what’s “in here”—inside your mind—and about what’s “out there” in the rest of the world.
from Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
Remember that every story has another side. Wisdom is the ability to see both sides and weigh them appropriately.
from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio