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Gamification once promised to create a better society, but it’s now used mainly to addict people to apps. The gamifiers, like Skinner’s pigeons, prioritized immediate rewards over delayed ones, so they gamified for the next financial quarter and not for the future of civilization.
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
Every day you play with the light of the universe
Pablo Neruda
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
(Jean-Paul Sartre)
When we feel stressed, anxious, irritated, or angry, one of the things that happens to the mind is that it shrinks down and zooms in on the challenge at hand—the stressful moment, the emotion we don’t want to feel. There’s a researcher, Andrew Huberman at Stanford, who calls this “the soda straw view” of the mind. This is the view of stress. When
... See moreNate Klemp • A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective
A story is our only boat, to sail on the river of time.
(Ursula K. Le Guin)
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
– Robin Williams
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
