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Nostalgia16
Sarah West Young
these epiphanies are ephemeral15
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how to live originally5
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The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic

Be dangerous, its careful out there

One of my art Professors talks about this. He basically urged us to document things. Images that captivated us, cracks on the sidewalk, pieces of tras

how incentives shape the world3
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people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.

Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those line

excellent bios1
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“Cody is not a therapist, mental health professional, trauma informed facilitator, or anything else that would give them credentials for talking about

sci-fact1
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pero why isn’t all this tech making life better3
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yet beyond symbolic vs ML as two different approaches, there's another dichotomy: AI as a method of understanding how we as humans work vs AI as g

Design is not what we make. Design is what we make possible.

80,000 hours0
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how to build the world’s best library7
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Timeline 1990: Problem recognized 2007: Location selected 2008: Architects selected 2011: Schematic design completed 2013: Construction starts 2017: C

BBF. The corollary of free access is frequently theft. Do you think that it is necessary to plan for the implementation of anti-theft devices when pro

taking life seriously + carrying it lightly2
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Ted Hughes: “And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry