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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
If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direc
these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no
The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist identified precisely this pattern in patients with right hemisphere brain damage. They remain art
I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th
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
