Calculations like these completely ignore the fact that technological progress has made man-made luxuries accessible at all price points…. A super-powered device the length of a pencil with all of the world’s information on it was not available in 1990 either

humans were not meant to wake up with access to this everyday

we exist because we won the 1 in 400 trillion lottery to become human via incomprehensibly small magical WAVES and you have the AUDACITY to be pessimistic

Marx predicted that technology, specifically automation, would advance to a point at which it would create internal contradictions with capitalism, ultimately leading to its collapse into communism. I hope Marx is wrong. We need a new framework.

I'm begging you to publish real, beautiful visuals to accompany your writing. the obstacles to doing so (skill, time) have vanished. we can and should be generating more and more visuals to accompany all text and insights. a great example from Shopify

Had no idea I needed an OpenAI hair clip this desperately

this could be you but you live in San Francisco

'human editors'

can't talk right now I'm in New Jersey

your barriers to creating something have never been lower

in Newark Airport hbu

*calling all designers, artists, architects* New Grant Opportunity: tylercowen & Patrick Collison want you to shake up the aesthetic of the 21st century. The internet, mobile computing, and AI have defined this period — but what of our art? Let’s make new things. APPLY.

some things are better offline

whoever cracks ‘fitness tracking’ for emotions may both: A) build the next great hardware company, and B) be responsible for an ungodly amount of divorces

A belief that really solidified for me this year is that if you are a romantic, and want to see the world full of magic and love, you have to create it. Host the dinner party, send the flowers, write the note, share the compliment, put up the decorations, plan the outing, so on

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