Writing  - every day -  is practicing thinking clearly over and over until it becomes almost natural. Worst case: you’ve lost twenty minutes a day that you’d likely have lost scrolling your phone anyway. Best case, you’ve debugged your own cognition.
The greatest irony of progress is that the people most obsessed with building the future rarely know how to enjoy the present. We’ve optimized for acceleration so hard that Be Here Now feels like a system error.
TIRED: giving poor people $200/month for food WIRED: giving a corporation that makes $60 billion in profit a $15 billion tax break because they promised to create 41.3 jobs in Ohio
> "There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful...”
Futurism
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
Nobody has more contempt for liberal democracy than people who've never lived without it.
The Venn diagram of people who shout “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses
Every ideology eventually becomes a pyramid scheme where you earn moral points by calling other people insufficiently pure
The world runs on three operating systems: markets, politics, and status. Everyone claims to hate the one they’re currently losing at.
Reading comprehension has gotten so bad that people now need tone indicators for obvious jokes. Poe's Law died and we're all living in its irony-poisoned corpse.
Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?