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Take 2 hours out of your life and treat yourself… it’s a magic conversation. Towards the end Beato quizzes Rubin about the difficulties of making music when “everything has already been done”. The vibe you get from Rubin is that “everything is still to be done”.
Charlie Stross tackles the idea of how our mental models limit our thinking. Anyway, a point I’ve already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can’t be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word “ship” in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively…
The reason for Seymour’s rating came through loud and clear in some savage commentary. “This divisive approach needs to end,” said one respondent, who believed he was “losing support from many of those who may have voted for him in his electorate”. A legal firm leader said “I worry they are not focusing on the biggest issues…
This assault on reason itself is at the core of Kanter’s critique. He starts off by listing three cases in which academic economists allowed themselves to be corrupted by the monopolies they studied https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/
Fuck yeah! Fifteen minutes. That’s how quickly one manager of an Auckland Warehouse Extra said te Wiki o te Reo Māori merchandise, which the Warehouse created in collaboration with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori, sold out in the weekend. But the man behind the collaboration said the sight of the merch selling out…
Looooove this… backstory here and lots more here.
A flawed journey of the übermensch
Friedman has blinded us… here is a much more sophisticated, positive-sum and hopeful perspective.
Dave5 