Jean Y

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Writing that expresses does not automatically communicate. Expression is of course good, but it is good for you, and not necessarily others. To communicate, you must put in work to make contact with another soul.
Yearnslop is the perversion of everything good about Love
Human beings are built for forward motion. Your brain generates wellbeing through progress, through solving problems, through moving toward things. When you take that away and replace it with inward focus, you’re starving the system that keeps you sane.
Everything Changed When I Stopped 'Working on Myself'
When someone without any of that embraces boredom, something very different happens. Their brain has no meaningful problems to chew on, so it starts creating problems out of thin air instead. Anxiety, worry, replaying old failures, imagining future disasters. I’ll explain why this happens later, but the short version is that your brain treats unoccupied stillness as a threat, and when there’s no real danger, it creates some.
Everything Changed When I Stopped 'Working on Myself'
a lot of what I view as high agency involves taking a chance on something that is uncertain, instead of sticking with something certain
Can You Just Do Things?—Asterisk
Drug experiences can be really useful in extracting you from your ordinary environment and giving you a newfound perspective on how you’re living your life.
Can You Just Do Things?—Asterisk
and the only way out is to actually be better than boys at boy things, but that's basically impossible. you don't actually have the core boy drive to do boy things. if you were really honest with yourself, which you're too scared to do - you actually do love romance novels and you want babies and all your nerdiest thoughts are ultimately about people, not things. you aren't cut out to be a boy. your inferiority is stamped into your bones.
how to be respected as a teen girl - by Aella - Knowingless
What doesn’t even out is the intellectual stimulation. My colleagues are nice people, but nobody talks about anything beyond kids, property prices, and what’s on Douyin. I miss my old team. I miss brainstorming sessions that actually made my brain light up. I miss the version of myself that had opinions about things beyond what to cook for dinner.
I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living
“heart energy” — 心气 — that fire in your chest that makes you want to make things, to try, to stay up late because you’re excited about an idea
I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living
Make the decision right, rather than make the right decision.
I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living
In a functional society, basic human milestones are incentivized. You want to form relationships, get married, buy a home, and plan for the future. In late-stage capitalism these same milestones become financially punishing and logistically impossible. The incentive structure flips into absurdity: what should be rewarded is punished and what should be discouraged becomes adaptive.
Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
Japan’s conditions create a map of where the U.S. is heading unless significant structural changes occur. We’re seeing intensified overwork culture in a stagnant job market, parasocial intimacy becoming a substitute for human connection, and convenience replacing domestic life. There is slow collapse of dating, shrinking fertility rates, and a pattern of young adults dropping out of social life under economic pressures.
Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like
All women eventually recognise the importance placed upon their bodies. It is as though girls are walking through a forest unaware and are then shown the trees. They can wonder how the trees got there, how long they have been growing and how deep their roots really go. But there is little they can do about them and it is almost impossible to imagine the world any other way. And the fiction that clever and ambitious women, who can measure their worth in the labour market on the basis of their intelligence or education, need pay no attention to their figure, is difficult to maintain upon examina…
The economics of thinness
In this way, the Body Cult serves as a targeted form of mind-control. It is a mental sand trap, a hazard carefully constructed to keep women disenfranchised in two primary ways: first, by restricting the most powerful means of modern influence (money); second, by atrophying our mental faculties until we are small-minded, powerless things (terminal SMOL BEAN / tumblr BABY DEER syndrome).
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
Choice feminism works in tandem with adjacent philosophies to form a complex set of “ideologies” which can even sustain internal contradictions: “Live and let live,” “mind your business,” and the especially vile “omg let people enjoy things!” have all seamlessly worked together to fragment our society into a billion individual consumer choices, each equally worthy and unassailable as the next.
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
In truth, I’ve always hated “be nice!”-ism, particularly the type I constantly see weaponized against other women in online spaces. These women are just turncoats to me. They are the old guard; low-level enforcers of hegemonic masculinity.
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
Unaware that they are being sold a Great Lie, women are led to believe they will find happiness in physical beauty and perfection, that such perfection can be achieved, and perhaps worst of all—that there is much integrity in the mental and physical labor expended in pursuit of it.
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
And when the consumer fails to find the relief she was deceptively promised, she is simply advised to consume more.
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
True taste is inherently exclusive because it rests upon a foundation of informed insight rather than casual engagement. Basically, we gotta stop being lazy people!
WTF is taste and why is it the new intelligence?
Taste isn’t sexy to build. It’s slow, frustrating, and sometimes embarrassing. There’s a gap between your taste and your ability - and it’s uncomfortable to live in that space.
WTF is taste and why is it the new intelligence?
Some already exist and are growing: nurses, therapists, teachers, boutique fitness instructors, personal chefs, bespoke tailors, craft brewers, live performers, spiritual guides, childcare workers, and many varieties of hospitality and care work. Others are emerging: experience designers, human-AI collaboration artists, provenance certifiers, community curators. Many haven’t been invented yet, just as six out of ten jobs people hold today didn’t exist in 1940
What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
AI may reduce the commodity sector’s share of expenditure and increase the share going to goods and services where the human element remains visible and valuable
What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
It will trigger the emergence of something new: a post-commodity economy, where a growing share of expenditure goes toward goods and services whose value is inseparable from the human who provided them.
What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity
Because, basically, that is what love is: a declaration of eternity to be fulfilled or unfurled as best it can be within time: eternity descending into time
Philosopher Alain Badiou on Why We Fall and How We Stay in Love – The Marginalian
Tell the AI agent that you want the interviewer to be like someone with business savvy, such as Steven Bartlett from the podcast "Diary of a CEO." But also say you want feedback from the likes of chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay, because he's known for providing his employees with brutally honest, constructive feedback. Say you want a true grade about your interview performance and recommendations for ways you can get better.
ICIMS Recruiting Pro Says Job Seekers Aren't Using AI the Right Way - Business Insider
“Love,” the novelist Iris Murdoch wrote, “is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
The Tyranny of the Relationship Gap - The Atlantic
Psychologists generally agree that similarity isn’t a good predictor of romantic compatibility. Nor is “complementarity”; opposites don’t necessarily attract. Gaps, then, aren’t a hugely helpful frame with which to consider relationships at all. And besides, isn’t it a bit navel-gazey to think so much about yourself in comparison to others? Freud called that impulse the “narcissism of small differences”: the frivolous ways we strive to neatly differentiate ourselves. In truth, we all exist on messy spectrums of an endless number of qualities, and we act differently at different times. You migh…
The Tyranny of the Relationship Gap - The Atlantic
America knows how to destroy regimes but not remake societies
Hubris Without Idealism - The Atlantic
Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning.
Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning - The Atlantic
Boredom exists “to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life,” he said, “the lesson of your utter insignificance.” Boredom puts us in our tiny, fragile, finite place—and thank goodness for that, for “the more finite a thing is, the more it is charged with life,” with love, pain, excitement, and fear.
Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning - The Atlantic
The tech industry is now rushing to develop more accessible versions of these products for the masses. Last month, Anthropic released a new paid version of Claude Code designed for nontechnical users; today the start-up debuted a new model to all users, which offers, among other things, “human-level capability in tasks like navigating a complex spreadsheet.” Meanwhile, OpenAI recently announced a new version of Codex, which the company claims can do nearly anything “professionals can do on a computer.” As these products have gained visibility, people seem to be realizing all at once that AI do…
AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm - The Atlantic
Unlike ChatGPT, which has a free tier, agentic tools such as Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex typically cost money, and can be intimidating to set up. I run Claude Code out of my computer’s terminal, an app traditionally reserved for programmers, and which looks like something a hacker uses in movies. It’s also not always obvious how best to prompt agentic bots: A sophisticated user might set up teams of agents that message one another as they work, whereas a newbie might not realize such capabilities even exist.
AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm - The Atlantic
The most recent AI models make decisions that feel like judgment. They show something that looked like taste: an intuitive sense of what the right call was, not just the technically correct one. A year ago that would have been unthinkable. My rule of thumb at this point is: if a model shows even a hint of a capability today, the next generation will be genuinely good at it. These things improve exponentially, not linearly.
Matt Shumer on X: "Something Big Is Happening" / X