What a from Albert Camus > In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. This line is from his essay > At noonā¦
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Quick thoughts
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Brief observations and spontaneous ideas. Short-form content capturing fleeting insights and immediate reactions.
C.S. Lewis on reading old books
Beautiful perspective. > None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only moderā¦
On nostalgia
I was reading this and this passage reminded of a quote that Steven Pinker often says: > Nostalgia has long been progressivismās favourite straw man. To dismiā¦
Zero Sum thinking is ruining the world
This by Jake resonated deeply with me. We all seem to be becoming increasingly adversarial in how we think about the world, and that's not a good thing: > Theā¦
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Beautiful. > You do not have to be good. > You do not have to walk on your knees > For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. > You only have toā¦
We are borrowed stardust
The ease with which Maria Popova of lyrical rhythm and immense depth is striking. > I thought of Einstein, who at sixteen, lonely and introverted, began wondeā¦
A hopeful view of large language models (LLM)
**File this under hopeful naĆÆvetĆ©, naĆÆve idiocy, or pointlessly hopeless romanticism.** I was playing around with Geminiās new image model, NanoBanana, and I wā¦
Social media is a funhouse mirror
Is social media a net positive or negative for society? This is an interesting question, at least for me personally, and my answer keeps changing with each pasā¦
The weight of telling stories
I watched this conversation between Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer and got really thinking about what artists are supposed to do. Mo's Netflix show Mo is about Palestinian refugees, anā¦
On AI-assisted writing
Iām a huge fan of Venkatesh Raoās writing and I on his experience with AI-assisted writing. Now that pretty much everybody has access some basic large languageā¦
All knowledge is my province
Lately, I've been reading a bit about the great Francis Bacon, and in parallel, I've been working on a site where I curate letters from the public domain. Whileā¦
The cost of collective apathy
That simple matter of fact is that we don't bother about so many bad things that happen in our local communities, let alone at a national level. If we keep ignoring this accumulatiā¦
Welcome to the age of weaponized interdependence
In 2019, two political scientists, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, published one of the most well-timed papers in recent memory. Titled , it argued that globaā¦
The world won't end with a bang but with a shrug of indifference
The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out ā and especially fast among young adultsā¦
The death of silence and the loss of contemplative spaces
An essay about how the loss of contemplative space is robbing us of our humanity.ā¦
Universities in the age of AI
Hollis Robbins is one of the most thoughtful commentators on how artificial intelligence is reshaping education. Her is, once again, bang on the money. She haā¦