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September 6, 2023
Kurzweil, Google Director of Eng, on connecting your brain to the cloud
google
,
kurzweil
,
neocortex
,
singularity
April 14, 2022
Blum against the boundaries of any single destiny
Exuberance
,
mortality
,
Robert Frederick Blum
,
satisfaction
,
the ameya
April 13, 2022
The Etymological Compendium on why it’s odious to slap your fools
comedians
,
fools
,
Hamlet
,
jesters
,
McClellan
,
political cartoon
April 6, 2022
Justin Murphy on The Improvement Illusion
improvement
,
justin murphy
,
pride
,
thomas merton
March 22, 2022
Knausgaard on the zeitgeist
karl ove
,
karl ove knausgaard
,
zeitgeist
November 14, 2021
Eric Fromm on how love is primarily giving, not receiving
art
,
Eric Fromm
,
giving
,
love
November 4, 2021
David Foster Wallace on default-settings
attention
,
David Foster Wallace
,
thinking
,
this is water
January 5, 2021
John Cleese and “Beer Mode”
Beer Mode
,
coffee
,
Coffee mode
,
contemplation
,
curiosity
,
David Perell
,
John Cleese
,
Monty Python
,
Paul Graham
,
play
,
productivity
,
Quote
January 5, 2021
The Fermi Paradox on the Great Silence
fermi paradox
,
game theory
,
Great silence
,
Killing Star
,
nightmare
,
Quora
,
science
,
science fiction
October 27, 2020
Pulitzer Prize winners Will and Ariel Durant on the lessons of history
Ariel Durant
,
conversative
,
lessons of history
,
old
,
partisan
,
politics
,
Pulitzer Prize
,
Quote
,
radical
,
Wil & Arient Durant
,
Will Durant
,
young
June 29, 2019
The Action Movie Fairy Tale
generation
,
last
,
movie
,
plot
,
psychiatry
,
psychology
,
Quote
,
quotes
,
synopsis
,
violence
June 5, 2019
Nora Taylor on her fear of octopi
Alek Trebek
,
fear
,
humor
,
Man Repeller
,
Nora Taylor
,
octopi
,
Quote
May 6, 2019
Kahneman and Tversky on their Prospect Theory
hours
,
Kahneman
,
prospect
,
prospect theory
,
time
,
Tversky
