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“The ability to ask beautiful questions – often in very un-beautiful moments – is one of the great disciplines of a human life.”
David Whyte
Issue 04 — The Beautiful Truth
In a world that is completely without rituals and wholly profane, all that is left are consumption and the satisfaction of needs.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Measuring wealth from zero is a different way to think about it than normal. What makes you wealthy, in the way the word is typically used, isn’t what you have, but what you have compared to the people near you in time, space, and culture.
We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
But Alfani’s observation that the rich as a group have no clear social function is borne out by the fact that, in the Musk era, they have reacted to populist pressures largely by justifying their fortunes as individuals. When they maintain a combative social-media presence, fixate on meritocracy, employ idealistic language to describe for-profit en... See more
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Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.
