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— Sacha Golob wrote:

Dumbness alone is rarely the driving threat: at the head of almost every dumb movement, you will find the stupid in charge.
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid | Psyche
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— Shane Parrish wrote:

If you could redesign society from scratch, but had to make those decisions without knowing who you would be in this new society, what would it look like?
The Fairness Principle: How the Veil of Ignorance Helps Test Fairness | Farnham Street
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— Brett Hall said:

Compromise tests ideas no one ever thought were correct in the first place.
The poverty of compromise | Naval
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— Steven Johnson wrote:

New ideas in how we should govern ourselves, or new models for economic production, are inevitably going to come out of unlikely places, where extreme conditions or new technological platforms make those new ideas imaginable for the first time.
The Pirate Codes | Adjacent Possible
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— Darius Foroux wrote:

A snapshot of someone’s life on Instagram tells you nothing about that person’s actual life. That’s how we should treat all those things: As pure entertainment, not as inspiration for life.
Why Am I Not Rich & Famous? The Delusion of Our Times | dariusforoux.com
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— Norbert Schwarz wrote:

As usual, evolution seems to privilege warning signals.
High quality audio makes you sound smarter | Ariyh
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— Marissa Goldberg wrote:

Working from one desk was a measure put in place to save the company money, not to help you do your best work.
Remote Work Prep | remoteworkprep.com
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— Twist wrote:

Companies prioritize talking about work at the expense of doing it and reward presence over productivity.
Why async? | twist.com
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— Debbi Johnstone wrote:

Regardless of whether your organization is fully remote, hybrid, or 100% in the office, defaulting to an async communication model gives employees the flexibility they crave.
This one simple change can help you stay ahead of the Great Resignation | Fast Company
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— Thick Nhat Hanh wrote:

Everything relies on everything else in order to manifest.
The Insight Of Interbeing | Garrison Institute
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— Ian Vanagas wrote:

We measure what matters. Therefore, if we don’t measure it or can’t measure it, it must not matter. And values are not something we know how to consistently measure right now.
How To Fix The Future: Make More Values Legible | ianvanagas.com
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— Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote:

We went from modernism—”Make it new!” Let’s shape History!—to postmodernism—everything sucks! Nothing really matters!—to metamodernism: maybe things are not this black-and-white? Maybe there’s a middle ground?
An introduction to metamodernism: the cultural philosophy of the digital age | Ness Labs
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— Naval Ravikant wrote:

All of our knowledge is conjectural. All of it is our best guess at the time.
No truth can be justified | nav.al
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— Nicki Lisa Cole wrote:

For good reason, the expectations linked to front stage and back stage behavior influence most folks to work pretty hard to keep these two realms remain separate and distinct.
Goffman's Front Stage and Back Stage Behavior | ThoughCo
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— Ezra Klein said:

Don’t think about consumption - even your consumption - as ‘’individual’’. Think of yourself as a node for social, political and moral contagion.
Ask Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties and More | The Ezra Klein Show
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— Tim Lomas said:

If words label and even create our world, what does it mean to lack a particular word in our own language? Are we not then missing out on some vital parts of existence that fail to us, out of sight.
Expanding our experiential horizons through untranslatable words | TEDx
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— John Hanke wrote:

We believe we can use technology to lean into the ‘reality’ of augmented reality — encouraging everyone, ourselves included, to stand up, walk outside, and connect with people and the world around us. This is what we humans are born to do, the result of two million years of human evolution, and as a result those are the things that make us the happiest. Technology should be used to make these core human experiences better — not to replace them.
The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let’s Build a Better Reality. | Niantic
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— Luke Alex Davis wrote:

I don’t care about your guilt or commiserations. Be an active accomplice, not an apathetic ally.
Beyond tired: Part 4 | lukealexdavis.co.uk
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— Kai Brach wrote:

What’s needed today is sustained outrage at the powerful, by those with the time and resources to express it.
Newsletter issue 147 | Dense Discovery
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— James Cartwright wrote:

Homo sapiens is a self-aggrandizing and dangerous species that has assumed domination over a planet it is only just beginning to understand.
How To Think Beyond Ourselves | Taking Time
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