anil dash on the evolution of false markets via the internet

around 29 minutes into anil dash’s interview on design matters he talks about this fascinating and terrifying trend. because he lays it out so brilliantly, i’m just going to rehash his points as i understood them.

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pádraig ó tuama and carlo rovelli on here

sometimes when i first hear something, it just floats by me. well, i guess it doesn’t float “by,” but it definitely doesn’t stick out as important. i suppose it gets processed and internalized, but just remains idle. but then, when another thought that’s relevant comes bombarding in, it lights up that other idea and makes it pop. i don’t know if that happens to anyone else, but this post is a recent example of this occurrence (although to not take too much credit i should be clear that krista made this specific connection in the episode herself this does happen at other times, too).

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carlo rovelli: things versus happenings

i’m listening to the carlo rovelli episode of on being and it’s one of the few that really stretches me. the way he talks about math and physics in some ways is really elegant and in other ways is just way over my head. that said, there are still some interesting takeaways.

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two more random train encounters

in the last month, i’ve had three random, really positive encounters on the train. one of them i’ve already written about and the other two happened in the last two weeks.

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pádraig ó tuama on understanding: sectarianism is belonging gone bad (part 4)

last thought inspired by pádraig ó tuama’s on being interview (really this time).

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