Evelyn Chin

on the atlas · 26

• No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating. | by Dave Troy | Oct, 2022 | Medium1 savers
• I Miss it All1 savers
• Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence44 savers
• We need a new philosophy of progress - Big Think1 savers
• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup10 savers
• Autonomy - by Mark Koslow - The Middle Path1 savers
• a quick primer on why most US cities are terrible1 savers
• Verso1 savers
• Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis3 savers
• From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities - by L. M. Sacasas2 savers
• Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily2 savers
• On growing up and fading dreams - by Lila Shroff5 savers
• Inhale one reality, exhale another. Life after an Ego Death experience3 savers
• Elon Musk's Flawed Vision and the Dangers of Trusting Billionaires | Time2 savers
• The Education of President Obama - The New York Times1 savers
• A Major New Book Takes on the Power Struggle at Ground Zero - The New York Times1 savers
• This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful - POLITICO2 savers
• Soushiant Zanganehpour: Solve systemic problems with social entrepreneurship (#23)1 savers
• How People Think · Collaborative Fund4 savers
• Why America can’t build quickly anymore2 savers
• What Is Play? How Children Define It | Psychology Today1 savers
• No Way Out but War - The Chris Hedges Report1 savers
• The Social Media Trap - David Perell2 savers
• Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell28 savers
• The Midlife Unraveling - Brené Brown1 savers
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why61 savers

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• Prior to that, he wrote: “Peloton sells happiness.” What does happiness mean? Why does it need to be sold?

  I Miss it All

• I don’t know how to drive. Everyone drives me everywhere. Being friends with me is like being friends with a tiny king who hasn’t found his kingdom.

  I Miss it All

• But when you are among people, even and especially the people you love, you don’t get to fashion it your way.

  I Miss it All

• “If I am really / Something ordinary,” the poet Larry Levis writes, “that would be alright.” Our culture doesn’t agree.

  I Miss it All

• The thing about laughter and loitering is that we engage in such acts among people. And the thing, sadly, about production and consumption is that our culture has fashioned it so that we can engage in such acts alone, even when we are in a room full of people. We browse alone. We buy alone. We are so close to living and dying alone.

  I Miss it All

• laughter and loitering are kissing cousins, as both bespeak an interruption of production and consumption.

  I Miss it All

• Perhaps one central question of our daily politics is what am I open to today?

  I Miss it All

• My friend who doesn’t read still reads everything I write.

  I Miss it All

• because of how often we have moved together through inconveniences

  I Miss it All

• “Inefficiency,” he writes about how he loves “just wandering,” before adding the sentence: “Maybe you’re with a friend, and maybe the inefficiency will make you closer.”

  I Miss it All

• I think about the beauty of being dependent on another’s whims so often these days.

  I Miss it All

• if you were faster than the rest, you were still slow. And if you were slower than the rest, you were still fast. There was no inconvenience. There was just each other.

  I Miss it All

• I wanted to give in to someone else’s wants. I missed my friends. I missed them so much.

  I Miss it All

• A community where, if you don’t want to, you just don’t have to deal with the other people in the community?

  I Miss it All

• The illusion of community is at the heart of so much of our contemporary society.

  I Miss it All

• There is a way that exercise machines enact the endless, grueling task of being alive in late capitalism…you know that you aren’t going anywhere.

  I Miss it All

• And yet, sometimes I worry that, regardless of our ironic self-awareness, we lose a little bit of one another each day.

  I Miss it All

• the world is infinite, and the work is, like, endless.

  I Miss it All

• Imagine yourself as the person you would be afraid to say you want to be out loud to others (because it seems so ridiculously impossible right now).

  Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence

• Magicians are wearing not just better, but fundamentally differently shaped lenses to the rest of us.

  Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence

• The way to extraordinary growth and changes often involves a fundamental ontological or ‘lens’ shift in how you see the world.

  Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence

• One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic.

  Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence

• They are so interested in justice that they are willing to critique their own beloved side, much as it pains them to do so.

  I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

• In other words, outgroups may be the people who look exactly like you, and scary foreigner types can become the in-group on a moment’s notice when it seems convenient.

  I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

• So what makes an outgroup? Proximity plus small differences.

  I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

• you only earn the right to call yourself ‘forgiving’ if you forgive things that genuinely hurt you.

  I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

• oppressively full of possibility

  Autonomy - by Mark Koslow - The Middle Path

• True autonomy is being able to control both our circumstances and our state of mind.

  Autonomy - by Mark Koslow - The Middle Path

• Owning a home, raising a family, and living in a safe area was the American Dream. Privacy was a commodity, and we were hungry for it

  a quick primer on why most US cities are terrible

• You, too, must exercise

  Verso

• than for the exerciser herself, who imagines an audience that doesn’t exist

  Verso

• As much blood has been spilled over products of the mind as of the body

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• Nature has all sorts of phenomena in stock and can suit many different tastes

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• incentives and rewards, heroes and villains, plotlines, reveals, satisfying narrative arcs

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• In an age of alternate realities, narratives do not converge.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• Everything that has gone wrong is the product of evil actors or systems, but there are powerful heroes coming to the rescue, and they need your help.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• The more I learn, the more astonished I am that everybody else isn’t taking this story as seriously as I am. My eyes keep opening while other people are going blind.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• You have alienated a few old friends … but made some great new ones, who get you better anyway.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• the underlying world picture, the big story.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• Debunking only ever eliminates one small set of narratives, while keeping the master narrative, or the idea of it, intact.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• What falls outside of or challenges the story of a given game is not so much disputed as ignored, and whatever fits neatly within it is highlighted.

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• Sometimes, something will happen in real life that provides such an outstanding move in the game that it will instantly go viral

  Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• entirely private life means above all to be deprived of things essential to a truly human life,

  From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities - by L. M. Sacasas

• Are you ready to have a child? Take your age right now and add 18. And nine months, if you want to get particular about it, but call it 18. That’s how old you’ll be for high school graduation. Add 25 and picture yourself traveling to visit your grown-up child in a new city. Add 30. Add 40.

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily

• Look to the wealthy and the entitled and see the future

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily

• All our conversations about choices and priorities and life decisions are held in the shadow of the great constraint.

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily

• You are subtracting years from the time you will share the world with your children.

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily

• Adulthood is a condition to enter cautiously and gradually.

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily

• we were spending down a limited resource

  Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die – Hmm Daily