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Shenita Gao

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highlights — 36

  • utting edge of capitalist technoculture, recuperation, and power, figured out
    Money for Nothing — Real Life
  • I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from.
    BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!
  • How you live affects how long you live. Most people could do better. Me among them.
    Life is Short
  • If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then they're gone.
    Life is Short
  • One heuristic for distinguishing stuff that matters is to ask yourself whether you'll care about it in the future. Fake stuff that matters usually has a sharp peak of seeming to matter. That's how it tricks you. The area under the curve is small, but its shape jabs into your consciousness like a pin.
    Life is Short
  • As well as avoiding bullshit, one should actively seek out things that matter. But different things matter to different people, and most have to learn what matters to them.
    Life is Short
  • When I ask myself what I've found life is too short for, the word that pops into my head is "bullshit."
    Life is Short
  • Sadly, our present system of mathematics educ ation is precisely this kind of night mare. In fact, if I had to design a mechanism for the express pur pos e of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern - making, I coul dn’ t pos sibly do as good a job as is currently being done — I simply woul dn’ t have the imagination to com e up with the kind of senseless, soul - crushing ideas that cons titute cont empor ary mathematics educ ation.
    A Mathematician's Lament
  • Timechains whose record of history cannot be reverted hold us to a higher standard of intentionality.
    Intention
  • Traditional corporations are politically centralized (one CEO), architecturally centralized (one head office) and logically centralized (can’t really split them in half)
    The Meaning of Decentralization. “Decentralization” is one of the words… | by Vitalik Buterin | Medium
  • So instead of revolution, trying to "intelligent design" our way to Utopia, we could learn from evolution, the natural process that made all of us in the first place.
    Evolution, Not Revolution
  • Revolutions always end up failing because they are reliant on people who are error-prone, corruptible, and whose priorities change over time. However, a smart contract I wrote that expresses a particular economic ideal, which is now deployed on mainnet, will remain there irrespective of what happens to me.
    Intention
  • encode our intentions, literally
    Intention
  • reality is that an honest, reflective life is about responding truly, in every moment, to what the world expects of you.
    Intention
  • encourages us to believe that life is about what we can expect of the world
    Intention
  • action-oriented culture
    Intention
  • How can you hope to improve the world if you do not know how to improve yourself?
    Intention
  • If you are not clear about your internal world - about what you mean to do - you will never be satisfied with the external world.
    Intention
  • Actions are, in a sense, how we attempt to make the external world match our internal world.
    Intention
  • what we achieve rather than what we mean
    Intention
  • we are conditioned to value action and results over intention
    Intention
  • And the paradox is that it looks like you’re probing for weakness, but you’re not. You’re probing for strength.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • a quest, an odyssey, a search for that individual that you can 100 percent absolutely and completely trust. But who’s not just trustworthy, but principled, and courageous, and competent, and kind, and loyal, and understanding, and forgiving, and unselfish
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • This is the human condition. In geometric terms this is called variance drain. Whenever you interrupt the constant increase above a certain level of threshold, you lose compounding, you’re no longer on the log curve. You fall back onto a linear curve or, God forbid, a step curve down. You have to be constant.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • Nobody wants to be constant.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • What’s the formula? Dogged incremental constant progress over a very long time frame.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • This is the beauty of deriving things multidisciplinary. You can’t be wrong! You see these things lined up there like three bars on a slot machine. Boy, do you hit the jackpot.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • Number one is simple. Simple transcends genius.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • It is this simple! It doesn’t mean it’s not sophisticated. This is a very sophisticated model we just derived, isn’t it? We did it in a multidisciplinary fashion, didn’t we? We looked into the three largest sample sizes that exist, the three most relevant, and they all said exactly the same thing. Do you think we can bank on that? 100 percent we can bank on that.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • Every interaction you have with another human being is merely mirrored reciprocation
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • That’s how the world works. It’s mirrored reciprocation. Everything in the inorganic universe works that way.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • A large, relevant sample size
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • You may know everything there is to know about your specialty, your silo, your “well,” but how are you going to make any good decisions in life—the complex systems of life, the dynamic system of life—if all you know is one well?
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • How many mistakes do you make when you understand something? You don’t make any mistakes. Where do mistakes come from? They come from blind spots, a lack of understanding.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • To understand is to know what to do.
    The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
  • Here is what you do Visit an article, blog post, or Russian-hosted text-file e-book site that you'd like to read. Click at the beginning of the headline, scroll to the bottom without clicking, and shift-click the end. Command-C. Paste into Your Friend the Text Editor. Print. Keep the lovely Monospace font. Print 4 pages per sheet, so it is small enough but still big enough. Fold your pages up. Take them to the park. Take them to work. Scribble all over everything. Make notes. Plan tweets about notes. Find your pages years later, under the desk. Wonder how you could have ever been so wrong, so …
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