Do quests, not goals(raptitude.com)
551 points by zdw | 154 comments
A Raptitude blog post by David Cain arguing for framing personal ambitions as open-ended quests rather than fixed goals.
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Maybe the default settings are too high(raptitude.com)
837 points by htk | 273 comments
A Raptitude blog essay titled "Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High," a personal-improvement piece suggesting we slow down our default pace of living and consuming.
Nobody knows what's going on(raptitude.com)
161 points by herbertl | 148 comments
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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)
5 points by samstress | 6 comments
A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.
Do quests, not goals(raptitude.com)
551 points by zdw | 154 comments
A Raptitude blog post by David Cain arguing for framing personal ambitions as open-ended quests rather than fixed goals.
The future is not self-hosted(drewlyton.com)
417 points by drew_lytle | 367 comments
Blog post by Drew Lyton arguing that self-hosting is not the future of personal computing and data ownership.
Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
444 points by axiomdata316 | 155 comments
An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.
How to Assemble Science(aeon.co)
6 points by karakoram | 0 comments
An Aeon essay on how humanity can make sense of the vast amount of new scientific knowledge produced daily by synthesizing existing research.