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They seem to be living in an era where if you don't have the ability to change your opinion on something on a dime, you're toast. We live in exponential times and we need exponential mental models to navigate these disturbing, treacherous, exciting, wonderful, shocking, and scary times.
keep reading — 1 min ↗Hard agree. For all it's flaws, Twitter is still awesome
keep reading — 1 min ↗"Rage economy" is a really nice framing
keep reading — 1 min ↗A thoughtful essay by Mahika Dhar in Public Books on brain rot as political resistance. Please read it. I want to preface this by saying I could be wrong. This might well be a misreading of her piece. But I came away with a small confusion, and I think it's worth sitting with. A little mental exercise: replace "brain…
keep reading — 3 min ↗One older leaf, brought back into the light.
keep reading — 3 min ↗Knapp and her colleagues have found in a new study, appears to be the case for the world’s third-most important staple crop: The 8-to-9-million-year-old lineage that begat the modern potato may have arisen from a chance encounter between a flowering plant from a group called Etuberosum and … an ancient tomato. Tomatoes, in other words, can now justifiably be described as the mother of potatoes. The plant experts I interviewed…