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Do not be assimilated: Star Trek's warning against collectivist tyranny
The Borg present a great metaphor for warning against creeping authoritarian socialism on the far left
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If information is important, it will find you
A simple concept to cure any digital FOMO you might have in modern times
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The (total) eclipse was cool
I'm not sure what I expected, but the difference between partial and total is wild
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Legacy industry rot is an ill of our time
Much work is needed if we hope for the world of atoms to improve once again, and along with it our optimism and vitality
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Good sleep fixes most things
I used to sleep poorly, but if your sleeps sucks, your life sucks. The good news is it's not that hard to fix.
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Adam Singer
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The context is the point
A simple mental model to bring joy: the less context something has or the more that context is faked, the less you should care about it
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You aren't upset enough about the war on hyperlinks
Our freedom to share links with our own digital communities has in many places already been taken from us. Bleaker: most say nothing about this.
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How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work
Maybe AI eventually lets us escape Earth and live forever, but in the near-term it will create two tiers of knowledge-economy worker
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