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I think bouldering gyms have already been invented.

He has an Instagram. He's an adventure photographer and he seems to golf a lot.

I find this as well, that breaking a habit kills some of its magic. However I sometimes prefer it this way. It might be good to hold habits with intellect rather than superstition.…

The psychologist William James described habits as like winding a string of yarn into a ball. If you drop the ball then you have to spend time rewinding it. Also, a ball that has b…

Is there much variation in floors? I assume most people think floors are either hard or soft - maybe we're missing a whole facet of experience!

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It seems like people's mental model of this is: 1. Ban phones 2. ??? 3. Childhood is saved! I'm trying to figure out what Step 2 is supposed to be.

Teenagers don't need solitary enrichment. They need places to hang around with other teenagers. That's what they used social media for. Now we've taken away social media, but we, t…

Honest question, what are kids supposed to do all day? We're taking away social media but it's not like we're rebuilding anything. I don't see Macron signing proclamations to bring…

AIs are fantastic for discovery. Just today I asked Chatgpt to find blogs 1) about old school newspaper cartoons 2) that have been writing for more than 10 years and 3) are run by …

> USA Today's flagship national outlet saw its organic Google search traffic from U.S. readers decline by close to 50% in the twelve months ending June 2026, per Semrush data. Over…

Sense of vertigo that this is the same AI that plans meals and recommends movies for me. Incredible range.

I actually love Instagram ads. It's often cool stuff I'd never seen before: airshow tickets, weird manga, tabletop miniatures. I've spent perhaps $1000. If Chatgpt can make ads tha…

When a signal becomes worthless, look for one that's harder to fake.

"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the li…

Even if AI stops merely at solving Erdos problems (merely...), metabolizing it would take decades.

Can you expand? You're building a world? In what mediums?

Louis CK: >I was on an airplane and there was high speed internet on the airplane… it’s fast, I’m watching YouTube clips, I’m on an airplane. It breaks down, they apologize, and th…