I have been alive for 71 years. Or, ~26,000 days. Or ~2 billion seconds. I am quite sure that for a majority of those seconds, I (whatever I is?) have been somewhere else, in a trance. Most of us are, most of the time, in a trance (generated by
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone whose eyes are rolling across these sentences! The quote from Lewis Thomas reminds me to be grateful for this weird and fleeting glimpse of conscious existence I am most fortunate to experience. In a fluke encounter, I came across a fascinating book entitled Fluke: Chance, Chaos,
I came across this New York Times piece in the Modern Love section. It hit me hard because of my personal experience with my own children. When I stopped pushing, pressing, and expecting and shifted to muscular patience with my children, and became a safe haven for them, the depth
That is the takeaway of an important post by the author David Epstein, which I reproduce below in its entirety, unedited. It highlights the danger of (as Jocko Willink likes to point out over and over) taking the easy path. Is AI rotting your brain? Maybe. But it might depend