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“I think the only fate worse than misfit-hood, for anyone, is self-pity. The loser mentality is an insult to God because you’re handed a singular unre

Imagine waking up and feeling curious about what the day might bring. Imagine feeling that subtle excitement about getting to know yourself more. Imag

Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let peopl

“I think the only fate worse than misfit-hood, for anyone, is self-pity. The loser mentality is an insult to God because you’re handed a singular unre

The models need us to keep experiencing new things, just as the universe needs us to keep experiencing new things. We need to keep experiencing new th

McLuhan put it this way: “The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bo

... Leo writes that technology is not neutral, ‘because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.’ Yet this i

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

Perhaps we’ve been too caught up with the question of human exceptionalism: what is it exactly that makes us special as a species? This is not necessa

“It is a principal aspect of the electric age that it establishes a global network that has much of the character of our central nervous system. Our c

... Leo writes that technology is not neutral, ‘because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.’ Yet this i

I I really think that creativity is going to become a lot more important and surprise and personality and originality like that's the premium that wil

think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedu

we have entered the era of mass produced mediocrity. swallow and follow the silence long enough for an original impulse to emerge. find the kindred li

, "And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realized two th

“We know things in the act, not in their essence.” – Peter Putnam

AI is a technology of the word itself. It externalizes and automates the human logos. And because it can so closely mimic our ordinary speech, it prom

Schlaf ist die kompromisslose Unterbrechung der uns vom Kapitalismus geraubten Zeit. Die meisten der scheinbar unhintergehbaren Notwendigkeiten mensch

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

The novel threat is no longer economic inequality or naked exploitation as such; it is that human beings will come to enthusiastically identify our ha

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

, "And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realized two th

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. Vallabhbhai Patel

The thing people tend to forget about Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury is pretty clear about how by the time they started burning books no one was read

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

The constraints of the medium, then, are the constraints of our embodiment, or at least that is my proposition to you. And these are, in part, the con

Some note-taking software will now show you a subset of your notes at regular intervals to help you jog your memory; a third-party plug-in for this is

Thinking is fundamentally done alone

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

2050 wird das dominante Thema in Deutschland nicht mehr sein, wie viele Autos ich habe, sondern: Wie gesund bin ich? Wie glücklich? Wie gut sind meine

... Leo writes that technology is not neutral, ‘because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.’ Yet this i

"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, no

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Erst Narrationen stiften Sinn und Zusammenhang. Die digitale, das heißt numerische Ordnung ist ohne Geschichte und Erinnerung. So fragmentiert sie das

You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it.

McLuhan put it this way: “The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bo

I will set aside for a moment the question of whether machines, LLMs specifically, can think or reason or use language in a manner that corresponds to

The machine cannot make us yield our ground. It is true that other humans can turn the machine against us, but that is a different problem. Here, I si

Perhaps we’ve been too caught up with the question of human exceptionalism: what is it exactly that makes us special as a species? This is not necessa

I will set aside for a moment the question of whether machines, LLMs specifically, can think or reason or use language in a manner that corresponds to