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Positive sum thinking is what grows the pie in a macro POV, but also in your own life. The more happy you are for others, the happier they’ll be for you.

Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard

Fermi Paradox of human civilization -- we are nearing a precipice of pivoting from competitive evolutionary theory to adaptive-contextual learning.

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Would you characterize this media analysis as a “conspiracy theory” at all? It’s precisely the opposite of conspiracy theory, actually—in fact, in general this analysis tends to downplay the role of individuals: they’re just replaceable pieces.

Peter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Youyang Gu: I was an untrained data scientist with zero prior experience in infectious diseases, but I became known as an “expert” in COVID-19. Not that I did it alone — my model was a crowdsourced effort, because I received help and advice from countless individuals on social media. Advancements in technology and dismantling barriers to communicat... See more

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Episode #188 Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han

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emergent strategy, strategy for building complex patterns and systems of change through relatively small interactions,

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Who could have imagined that such a wealth of information, science, and technology could have resulted in collective madness, but so it has. It never needed to be so. It does not need to be so now. If there is not a similar explosion of understanding and wisdom in order to restore proper balance between the higher cognitive capacities and the lower... See more

Dee Hock • DATA TO WISDOM - Dee W Hock

Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified