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Maximizing armchairs, speculating and listening. Possible (tech/Ψ)centaur, uncertain (φ)gryphon, and (✝)participant.
Relevant to marriage as well.
There’s a version of you you haven’t met yet. In this episode from the archive, @todd_herman explains why commitment, not effort alone, is what unlocks long-term performance. Todd spent two decades coaching elite performers, including helping Kobe Bryant craft the alter ego…
I can’t discern whether it is wrong to feed birds. At campgrounds, this encourages dependence and nuisance. But what about the neighborhood, and being a friend of birds?
"How could God let this happen?" the cry of dwindling faith in the face of suffering.
People are slowly realizing they held the wrong mental model of young men. The wrong mental model says that young men are natural risk-seekers and will naturally want to approach (and possibly harass) women. Now people are learning that most young men's default factory setting is…
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity. - Cicero
“To be sure, our phones have become indispensable tools, but at the same time they have distanced us from our friends, our loved ones, nature, and even ourselves. With our phone, we are never alone, never have to look into ourselves – or the skies.” plough.com/en/topics/life…
Envy is a choice, and is both terrible (destructive) and hateful (misery inducing). It is also a societal norm.
I confess I can see, but I cannot moderate, nor love as I ought. I pray Thee for Thy loving kindness sake, supply my want in this particular. And so make me to love all, that I may be a blessing to all: and well pleasing to Thee in all.
Yes, because I think that is how biology controls itself - each level bends the option space for the lower levels, aligning the competent subunits to the same self- and world-model (with different degrees of bending their will). Cells convince molecular networks, tissues…
Just remembered that I don’t really know what time is. When I say some event is 2hrs away, there’s a sense of chronological distance.
as more people around me spend time speaking with AI chatbots, i have recently reconsidered the illusion of painting. painting is entirely an illusion, like most arts. i would say it is the most efficacious illusion. when reading, you can perceive the art as just text, even as…
We should start a new initiative for sharing spacecraft build technology, and call it Kerbal Space Program. Missed opportunity for SpaceX to affirm simulation theory.
A worrisome analysis suggests birth rates may be too low for long-term survival. 👶 2.7 kids/woman needed to avoid extinction ➡️ Most countries fall short (U.S. at just 1.66) 📉 At today’s current rates, most family lines are destined to eventually go extinct.
When cars are self-driving, it will make biking so much better. I can’t wait.