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Nobody's building AGI. They're building increasingly sophisticated prediction engines trained on human cultural output.That's not 'general intelligenc

Great questions don't appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great que

Lack of patience derails more ambitions than a lack of ability — talent gets you noticed; patience gets you through the third draft, the tenth rejecti

If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't asse

Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligent

one thing I recommend every woman go find for herself is the audacity

In some corners of the Internet there’s a fascination with traditionalism, and criticism of the ways the openness and optionality of modernity have le

We are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is no

Go, even though you don’t know exactly why you can’t stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough. Get a pen. Write that last sen

It means that if you yearn to be free of a particular relationship and you feel that yearning lodged within you more firmly than any of the other comp

“You mean to say,” I asked, “that people don’t really want out of the relationship itself, they just want out of the dynamic?” “That’s right,” she sai

But also—I think we’ve gotten kind of weird about reading books like reviewers, in the age of the internet. I saw a bit of a video once where this asp

“When Sontag read Gide’s journals, she identified so deeply with his thinking, she wrote, ‘I am not only reading this book, but creating it myself.’”

In her seminal work on boilerplate contracts, Margaret Jane Radin distinguishes between World A and World B to illuminate the fundamental tension betw

Great questions don't appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great que

quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard): There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentra

But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that

The difference between schools and libraries From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground

Something else happens in a world of superabundance, and an attention economy. Because you can’t find what you want, you start to dig yourself into ve

It seems to me that, through the way Reddit and YouTube and social media work, there’s such an emphasis on creating distinctions and communities, and

Individuals who choose to love can and do alter our lives in ways that honor the primacy of a love ethic. We do this by choosing to work with individu