71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and this sounds like a lot of water. But only 0.12% of Earth's total volume is liquid water. Look at this chart. The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles and has a volume of about 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers km³). The blue sphere over Kentucky represents... See more

Thesis: We are not addicted to the internet or smart phones. Rather, our will power is utterly depleted by the persistent cognitive, emotional, and moral demands they make of us.

Capture inspiring information. Our digital environments need to be inspiring as we spend the majority of our days in it. Your second brain is one of the few spaces (digital or physical) that you truly control. So why not make it to your liking? https://t.co/tsC3DseDgz

Wir müssen davon ausgehen, dass unsere politischen Systeme schwächer werden je weiter die Klimakrise fortschreitet. Was, wenn die Klimakrise am Ende prinzipiell lösbar ist, aber nicht politisch?

The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.

When you’re stuck, ask yourself: what’s the simplest, worst version of this I can whip out in 15 minutes? • Free-flow shitty first draft of a blog post • 5-slide presentation with no design flourish • Messy project mindmap in your notebook Put a timer on and give it a try :)

@postingtime this single-handedly changed my entire perspective randomly last year https://t.co/oS4dvCLCHE

If God wanted us to build Type 1 Civilization, he would have: 1. put a giant fusion reactor in the sky (emitting blackbody radiation around 5800 K) 2. made 28% of Earth's crust out of a semiconductor with a matching bandgap (~1.1 eV or so) 3. filled the oceans with an alkali… Show more

1/ Europe doesn't have a tech industry. But why is that the case? The short answer: it's not because of regulation. 🧵A thread: https://t.co/wBkpVSiESC

The pandemic showed us how tech companies profit immensely when we’re isolated and forced to spend more time staring at screens. The entire push to roll out headsets can’t be separated from that reality: they want us to always be looking at screens.