https://twitter.com/jmikolay/status/1366890099204648962?s=09
“The root of passion, in Latin, is suffering.
The Passion Economy means the suffering is worthwhile.
You might not be happy 100 percent of the time.”
“The root of passion, in Latin, is suffering.
The Passion Economy means the suffering is worthwhile.
You might not be happy 100 percent of the time.”
Twitter
Justin Mikolay 💻
A distillation of what @ljin18 and @shl said about the Creator Economy on Clubhouse yesterday:
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9BdVdKS3BuYQ&ep=14&episode=YzkyNjMxNDUtNTZjOS00NzkzLWE5ODYtODI4MzQ5ODc2Mjhl
#NFT
#NFT
Google Podcasts
a16z Live - Good Time Show: The NFT Episode
Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan welcome Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and other experts and early adopters to discuss all things NFT (non-fungible tokens) on the Good Time Show. Guests include Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple), the digital artist whose work…
https://a16z.com/2021/02/27/nfts-and-a-thousand-true-fans/
“This is not about making money,this is about self-expression.”
“This is not about making money,this is about self-expression.”
Future
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
How long is ‘now’, the gap between the past and the future? | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24933171-200-how-long-is-now-the-gap-between-the-past-and-the-future/
很有趣的问题。This question delicately balances perception, physics,psychology and perhaps even religion.
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24933171-200-how-long-is-now-the-gap-between-the-past-and-the-future/
很有趣的问题。This question delicately balances perception, physics,psychology and perhaps even religion.
New Scientist
How long is ‘now’, the gap between the past and the future?
Buddhists recommend living in the present moment, but what exactly is this?
Demiurgical Businesses - Breaking Smart
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/demiurgical-businesses
"Twitter is my favorite example of a reality transformation business, or what I call a demiurgical business. Nobody asked for it, and even 14 years later it is unclear what problem it solves, and for whom. It was built because it was possible to build, and it ended up transforming reality for everybody. Now people have “real problems” within the expanded Twitter reality, such as being able to edit tweets.”
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/demiurgical-businesses
"Twitter is my favorite example of a reality transformation business, or what I call a demiurgical business. Nobody asked for it, and even 14 years later it is unclear what problem it solves, and for whom. It was built because it was possible to build, and it ended up transforming reality for everybody. Now people have “real problems” within the expanded Twitter reality, such as being able to edit tweets.”
Ribbonfarm
Demiurgical Businesses
Listen now (15 min) | Beyond product-driven and customer-driven
https://youtu.be/Bw9P_ZXWDJU “spirituality is about questions, religion is about the answers .”
YouTube
Yuval Noah Harari | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Talks at Google
Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus," and one of the world's most innovative and exciting thinkers, discusses his newest work, "21 Lessons for the 21st Century."
Described as a “truly mind-expanding”…
Described as a “truly mind-expanding”…
"What's the meaning of life ... I came to a conclusion that what really matters is trying to understand the right questions to ask & the more that we can increase the scope & scale of human consciousness the better we are able to ask these questions" — Elon musk
The Analysis of Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
看到VE发的四库全书，突然想到了一个友人自己搭建的英文书库。我自己常常去那找书，书库还是挺全的，推荐给大家。
https://mega.nz/folder/ReoDzL6I#SmFcMcJBVsUN3jjt20XJCQ
https://mega.nz/folder/ReoDzL6I#SmFcMcJBVsUN3jjt20XJCQ
mega.nz
File folder on MEGA
On effective altruism and how to motivate ourselves to do important work even when it doesn’t feel emotionally compelling.
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Why I find longtermism hard, and what keeps me motivated - 80,000 Hours
https://80000hours.org/2021/02/why-i-find-longtermism-hard/
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Why I find longtermism hard, and what keeps me motivated - 80,000 Hours
https://80000hours.org/2021/02/why-i-find-longtermism-hard/
80,000 Hours
Why I find longtermism hard, and what keeps me motivated
I find working on longtermist causes to be — emotionally speaking — hard: There are so many terrible problems in the world right now. How can we turn away from the suffering happening all around us in order to prioritise something as abstract as helping make…