Olivia Du

on the atlas — 10

• Braess's paradox1 savers
• Why Nerds are Unpopular11 savers
• Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find | WIRED1 savers
• Some Things Just Take Time | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings3 savers
• Shorthand2 savers
• Steganography1 savers
• Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships2 savers
• Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs? | Scientific American2 savers
• The Language of Food: Ketchup1 savers
• You Don’t Need a Digital Detox—You Need a New Context.1 savers

highlights — 2

• It’s because I or someone else, planted something, and then I kept showing up, and eventually the thing had roots that went deeper than my enthusiasm on any given day. That’s what time does! It turns some idea or plan into a commitment and a commitment into something that can shelter and grow other people.

  Some Things Just Take Time | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

• We often underestimate how much of ourselves are shaped by our surroundings. It’s easy to write off the feeling of clarity we find on vacation or in nature as temporary jet lag, nostalgia, novelty. But I believe we become different people in different contexts. Our attention, our identity, even our capabilities are not fixed traits. They’re relational, constructed.

  You Don’t Need a Digital Detox—You Need a New Context.