You have an hour per day to learn philosophy in an app with every Great Book and an AI companion to talk to you about whatever you want. Would you rather be told what to learn or allowed to follow your curiosity? Would you rather spend 1 year getting something like an Oxford PPE

"The challenge, then, is not to offload memory to our machines, but to preserve and renew the practices of attention and concentration that memory requires." - Adam Robbert Link in replies.

In 1977, architect Christopher Alexander published A Pattern Language, an attempt to codify the recurring solutions that make human spaces come alive. He believed that certain patterns, like the window sill, the sacred grove, the garden, possessed a “quality without a name."

If you enjoyed this thread, you might also enjoy reading the entire article, "The Timeless Way of Learning" on Substack. secondvoice.substack.com/p/the-timeless… And follow us Lightning Inspiration where we're attempting to bring these principles to life.

It's time to build (timelessly)!

Abundance, but for context.

"We’re declaring bankruptcy on humans. Bring on the AI...we’re designing an AI-integrated childhood for our kids—all while feeling like we’re helping them dodge a major bullet." Simone & Malcolm Collins share a beautiful provocation on parenting for Second Voice. Link in comments

"The thing that moves me most is not what I have learned, but how the conversation has elicited and awakened questions I had latent in me..."

Very nice. Worth checking out.

Long live learning! Congratulations Zohar Atkins on the launch of Lightning Inspiration. May it help us all grow in our understanding of the world.

The Classics are Free and Open Source, and everyone knows they're awesome, and yet we still don't read them. We're here to help. Introducing a New Way to Read the Classics.

I believe that we're entering a new era of learning. We're calling it "dynamic personalization". There are a number of pioneers in the space, whom we've taken inspiration from: MacKenzie Price Alpha Michael Strong Ray Girn Ajay Mehta Quinten Farmer Daniel Cahn

The Great Library of Alexandria, built from the ground up with Notion Ivan Zhao as our foundational building blocks, is an AI first reading experience. Aristotle in your pocket.

In the age of AI, with everything moving so quickly, we've created Lightning Mode. Read with intention, sentence by sentence. I believe our philosophical heroes would have enjoyed being read this way. In fact, Nietzsche implored his readers to slow down.

Virgil, our intellectual companion, is at the heart of the experience. It was built with the work of Maria Montessori in mind: Socratic, conversational, empathetic. A guide who forever follows your curiosity and learns alongside you. Michael Strong Matt Bateman

One of the challenges with reading, today and yesterday, is to help people know where to start. We built reading lists to curate classics and get recommendations from friends. We'd love to see what lists everyone creates. Here's a link to my personal collection:

Btw, we're launching The Great Library of Alexandria on Product Hunt 😸 today. A vote for us is a vote for a new way to read the classics. :) producthunt.com/products/alexa…

Joey Hiles "It is not good for a human being to be alone." (Genesis 2:18) - We need interpersonal relationships. Yet it is also the case that one can be lonely in a crowd and with oneself in solitude. Hannah Arendt defines philosophy as a capacity to have a dialogue with oneself. Not all

We all have our first loves in philosophy. Someone who speaks just to us. Mine was Nietzsche.

The fact that I can post a link to the first book that captured me, in a library that I helped to build with Zohar Atkins and Alex Jakubowski inspires me endlessly, and makes me wonder what texts first took hold of you. alexandria.wiki/texts/Thus-Spo…