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Grow a Garden recently blew past the Epic Games shooter Fortnite to set a record for most users playing simultaneously, at more than 20 million. Cumulatively, Grow a Garden has already been played more than 12 billion times.There are Roblox games that have been played more, but they took years to get where they are, versus a few months for Grow a... See more

Borrowing from Mark Twain, who borrowed from Josh Billings, the difference between getting this right and getting it almost right is the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.

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

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

Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .