When 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.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneThe EA mindset is often technocratic. The progress community tends to be much more Hayekian: let lots of people try things and see what works.
Two tribes that both worship technology can't agree on whether it's steered by experts or by markets. That tension is more useful than the consensus it blocks.
NautilusA look at the recent research pulling at the edges of the affect-as-information model — when does how you feel actually tell you something about the world, and when is it a misleading internal signal?
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.