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People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restric
"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." ~Terence McKenna
maybe "lie constantly to everyone for convenience" is a bad cultural value that causes more problems than we realize
So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see
I think of it as the difference between order and a different kind of order. Because there’s nothing chaotic in diversity. There’s nothing chaotic in
The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire
Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have
Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the
I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate
warm minimalism
Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish
When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of
