ideas & opinons
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objects & realizing their value
physical things have inherent value unlocked only through acquiring & exercising the skill to use them a canoe at dock has only potential value a canoe manned by a skilled oarsman realizes its potential value so the physical around us that we acquire- we have to work to realize their capabilities objects with high potential,…
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life as drama
life is a drama the world is a stage. choose your costume get out on the set play your part well. don’t stand back and just be a critic of your own experience. don’t let the show pass you by.
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levels
you aim for food security & safety until you achieve it and then it becomes a baseline then you aim for financial stability that enables richer experiences of the world until you achieve it and then these become taken for granted then you aim for mastery of a skill that enables learning yourself and there…
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on the value of time
you hang in the balance of infinity. continuous neural fireworks you do not understand on top of concurrent biological systems you do not control. so then what is the value of a second? and what do you with something that given the stacked odds should not exist in the first place?
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algorithm
passive feed(ing) optimizing dopamine tiny synthetic sparks of pleasure light up dulled neurons resist the algorithm create actively
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attention as a resource
In the present world, attention is a scarce resource. Algorithms fight each other for our attention so then how can you be mindful of your attention and where its pointed and how you allocate your attention over the course of a day. We build, maintain, and compound what we give our attention to Over long…
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rings of time
But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends…
sid gore 