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Thomas
The things we call intelligence have transformed us from small, slow, physically weak apes to the solar system’s most lethal apex predators. However, when we ask whether other animals are intelligent, we’re not usually asking what capacities or kinds of bodies were advantageous in their evolutionary past. We’re really asking whether they do things... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Ambition isn't about getting more money, more goods, bigger houses, greater acclaim from people you don't know or respect. It's not about anything that can fit on a spreadsheet or graph, or that lends itself well to bragging on social media. All of that is just grasping, not ambition.
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in... See more
Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in... See more
River Kenna • Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto
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“I don't say no because I'm so busy.
I say no because I don't want to be busy.”
Courtney Carver
What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content. [The platforms] have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the... See more
Tara McMullin • 'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
The rule of reframing can look different depending on what you're dealing with. But it always involves seeing a problem from a different angle, with the goal of breaking a cycle of harmful thoughts and behavior.
Justin Bariso • Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Rule of Reframing to Change Their Perspective, Think Differently, and Reduce Anxiety
Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth — our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves o ff from these other voices, to continue by... See more
Claudia Chwalisz • Governing with the more-than-human world
here’s my way of thinking about sharing:
- your website = your home / your garden
- email newsletter = birds that carry your gifts
- public platforms (social media, podcast, = pop-up booths & tents, your energy going camping elsewhere