Bushra Farooqui 📖 🕯️

This is going to be my wallpaper “...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.”

A top-tier emotional skill is creating forms of intergenerational-stability, good defaults, in an otherwise rapidly shifting world with vanishing social structures and unclear norms

Navigating the healthcare system should be a magical experience. We're launching @SunnyHealthAI today to bring us one step closer to that. Imagine AI that understands your benefits and the healthcare system deeply, including real-time costs, quality, and availability, and…

real life:

nobody tells you this: it’s possible to find the funniest and sweetest trainer who’ll have you red as a tomato huffing and puffing, profusely sweating as you superset goblet squats, mountain climbers, planks — while laughing your head off as you grow stronger 💗

Dream undergraduate course Map/Territory studies 101 starter reading list - Dao De Jing - James C. Scott; Seeing Like a State - C. Thi. Nguyen; Games: Agency as Art - C. Thi. Nguyen; Value Capture - The Cloud of Unknowing - Ivan Illich; Deschooling Society - Jane Jacobs; The…

tfw you realize you’re missing someone when you buy their favorite fruit

I always learn a lot more from in-depth analysis of few random cases over dashboards of aggregate statistics across all cases. Both projections can be helpful but the latter is disproportionately pervasive.

attention in its purest form, listening to children, rather than ruling them with preconceived notions of what is good for them:

One line book summaries like this one:

Alexander’s organizing insight was that design must attend to wholes rather than parts: every element simultaneously serves its own function and contributes to larger patterns of organization.

There is a very special delight in seeing children at serious, rapid play 9 yo nephew watched and heard his cousin play the keyboard, then pleaded his dad to teach him. Less than 12 hours later, I heard this melody wafting down the hall at ~1 am:

There’s a tension in modern self-discovery and self-optimization culture and mutual multi-generational care culture — whoever resolves it should win a Noble Peace Prize