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Anyone working on consumer hardware/AI and is around Santa Monica after FarCon, come by to our event tonight - heads up that capacity is quite limited.
https://partiful.com/e/zyOXxSOZjsjJycfpWp7v
https://partiful.com/e/zyOXxSOZjsjJycfpWp7v
Does something gain physicality when it’s yours?
Finally getting around to Three Body Problem and it’s a trip
Listening to Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and how she helped found the Central Park Conservancy in the 80s & lead a public-private partnership to create a lasting institution under the value of beauty. I recommend reading about this woman and the vision and work of Frederick Law Olmsted which Elizabeth worked to uphold.
"You are a human being with engineering opportunities before you"
Urbit or Exit? Which way western man?
I'm using Vienna Hypertext way more than I expected to
"society has to regain its lost respect for energy and powerful machinery."
i.e. energy maximalism
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/interview-j-storrs-hall/
i.e. energy maximalism
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/interview-j-storrs-hall/
“Books and stories, time and history. These are all like a perfume; they seep in and rise differently in everyone. This will always be the case and will always be misunderstood.”
Life inhabits the implicit. Being obsessed with the explicit is denying that the essence of life is something we cannot completely unpack.
A woman can have it all, but not all at once
Cogent and original thoughts around Thiel’s Progress and Stagnation
https://scholars-stage.org/has-technological-progress-stalled/
https://scholars-stage.org/has-technological-progress-stalled/
“If this person is successful, would this be a future I want to live in?”
After internalization, if the answer is yes, then a good rule of thumb for where to invest your time/money/energy.
After internalization, if the answer is yes, then a good rule of thumb for where to invest your time/money/energy.
“I take a walk each day amid the bustle of the crowd with as much freedom and repose as you could obtain in your leafy groves, and I pay no more attention to the people I meet than I would to the trees in your woods or the animals that browse there.”