Thomas

The easiest way to feel the absolute value of something is to imagine, as vividly as possible, its disappearance.

If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.

But if you’re doing this to find out what you have to say and to say it with your full chest, then there will be no fancy metric to calculate if it’s working or not. You’ll just simply know. And if it’s not... See more

‘Yeah, TikTok is for three things: learning stuff and feeling good about yourself, stalking people, and brain rot.’

In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of... See more

The book goes on to suggest a better path to future prosperity, consisting of:

* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.

* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more

A key shift in consciousness is when one learns to break frames. This does not mean to discard them, but rather to recognize that every frame is in need of constant updating. In order to allow the updating of any frame, we must remove any sense of identity from that frame.

It’s a subtle but massive difference in mindset. Traditionally, businesses create all the value for the consumer. Community-driven businesses create spaces for consumers to create value for each other.