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Nikita
This is what behavioral economists call “sludge” — friction that’s deliberately added to discourage you from doing something a company doesn’t want you to do. Freakonomics has an entire episode on it. The concept is simple: every extra step, every form, every phone tree is a filter. The harder something is, the fewer people complete it.
It time travel will exist at some point in the future, time travel has always existed, therefore time travel does not exist.
This is a move in classical logic called modus tollens. If something is true, it should leave evidence. No evidence? Not true.
It’s also the entire engine of detective fiction. You look at what’s missing and reason backward.
... See morethe space in between is not just a void, it’s generative
connection, creativity, empathy, love, kindness - all exist in this space
connection, creativity, empathy, love, kindness - all exist in this space
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Reading Paley will, I predict, make you better understand the idea that love is attention and vice versa.
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What does a writer leave behind? Scale models of a way of seeing and thinking.
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Paley’s model advises us to suffer less by loving more — love the world more, and each other more—and then she gives us a specific way to love more: see better.
... See moreMaria Popova • How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering
The great writer’s gift to the reader are not better answers but better questions, a greater tolerance for uncertainty, a mechanism of transmuting confusion into kindness, and at the same time a way of seeing the world more clearly in order to love it more deeply.
Maria Popova
Maria Popova • How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering
... See moreWe have thoughts and they self-generate and dominate us. We mistake those thoughts for us. In both Buddhist practice and writing, you have a chance to go, Oh, those are just brain farts. They’re just happening spontaneously, and I didn’t actually create them, and I’m not sure I really want to take ownership of them. At the same time, they’re