“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently am... See more

Grace Lin: She asks, Where do you get your ideas?

Mo Willems: Well, Leah, that's a very good question and I'm afraid you may not like the answer because ideas are not things you get. People tend to think that ideas are things like diamonds. And then you go out and you get them and you grab them and you bring them back. But that's not what ideas are.

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Intelligence is moving from human-scale to machine-scale. AI will be to the mind what the automobile was to the city… https://t.co/NcBspApI1t

Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.

Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’ Sust

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To put it simply, if we are going to let corporations be “persons” and afford them special privileges and protections due to that personhood, then it makes sense to make our natural resources legal persons as well.

Corporations depend on these natural resources, and we have done a poor job as humanity of protecting these natural resources from abuse

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

-H Thurman

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a dystopian... See more

“Every day I wake up and say, ‘I’m going to save a life.’ All day long I look for situations where I can save a life. And I do it. Every day I save at least one life. Today I probably saved five lives. And I feel good about it. Try it. Wake up tomorrow and say, ‘I’m going to save at least one life today.’ Even helping an old woman across the stree

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