A philosophical essay arguing that the famous 'hard problem' has sidetracked consciousness research, and that the 'easy problem' is where the real work is.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneWhen you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's suture.
The first sentence of every writer's manifesto, including this one. The line is the work; everything after it is excavation.
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction, but a function of focus—an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice.
Popova's framing is sturdier than 'happiness is a choice': joy is what you elevate by deliberate attention, not what happens to you. Actually actionable.
The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that those who belong to elite trades - physicians, lawyers, teachers, and scientists - protect their special status by creating vocabularies that are incomprehensible to the general public.