The Two-Way Mirror of Art and Technology (digitalnative.substack.com)
How Tech Innovations Move Culture
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Philosopher File: Gautama Buddha (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
The Buddha was a wandering renunciant in Ancient India who kick-started a two and a half thousand-year-old religious and philosophical revolution. But who was this mysterious figure, and what was the revolution he started?
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Digital Kinship: How the Internet Is Reacting to the Loneliness (digitalnative.substack.com)
The Shift from Individualistic to Communal
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Why I Testified Before the U.S. Senate (abigailshrier.substack.com)
The Equality Act is a Very Bad Bill
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That house is not empty! (pleasewatchyourself.substack.com)
And neither is your car!
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Philosopher File: Laozi (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
The legendary Chinese philosopher Laozi is associated with the long tradition of Daoism (or Taoism). But his work is famously elliptical and difficult.
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7 Ways of Reading Philosophy: An Introduction (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
There are many ways you can read a philosophy book.
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The Memeification of American Capitalism (digitalnative.substack.com)
The Common Threads Between GameStop Mania and NFT Mania
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The bento box is our digital future (waitjustlisten.substack.com)
An understanding of how value works in life and in the digital world.
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We All Stand Together: Love, connection and community (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Amazonian social philosophies of love remind us that community is fundamental to how we live and love.
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Alexus McLeod on Maya Philosophy (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Questions of time, ritual and identity lie at the heart of Maya philosophical traditions. Find out more in this fascinating interview with Alexus McLeod.
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Philosopher File: Sunzi and the Art of War (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Sunzi’s “The Art of War” is an ancient Chinese text that has become famous worldwide for its insights into strategy. Even today, it is still a go-to reference for military and business leaders.
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Weaving the Net of Argument: Three Radical Women Philosophers (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Three stories of women philosophers in the ancient world weaving arguments to challenge their male contemporaries. Gārgī Vācaknavī in India, Hipparchia in Greece, and Jing Jiang in China.
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Philosopher File: Empedocles (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Empedocles was a philosopher, wandering poet and shamanic healer who claimed the entire universe was underpinned by the forces of Love and Strife.
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Philosopher File: Deng Xi (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Deng Xi was a lawyer and philosopher associated with the so-called “School of Names”. He was skilled in debate and frequently caused confusion by simultaneously arguing opposite viewpoints.
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A Love Letter for Myanmar (willbuckingham.medium.com)
Myanmar helped me come to terms with grief. Now I am grieving for Myanmar.
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That Gut Feeling: Wisdom and the body (Season 01:4) (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Wisdom is often seen as an intellectual virtue. But what role does the body have in developing and maintaining wisdom?
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Philosopher File: Anaxagoras (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
The Presocratic philosophers are famously strange and difficult; but of all of them, Anaxagoras, who saw the universe as essentially gunky, is one of the strangest.
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How Toastmasters has survived—nay, thrived!—for 100 years (gettogether.substack.com)
Toastmasters is synonymous with public speaking and has thrived for 100 years. So what makes it tick? In this post, Bailey Richardson describes the history, purpose, and evolution of the organization. He also describes how the founder (Ralph C. Smedley) managed to expand the organization despite challenges.
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A Conversation With Ellen Pao (www.newcomer.co)
I turned to Pao, looking for moral clarity in a dark hour.
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Philosopher File: Anna Ezekiel on Karoline von Günderrode (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Philosopher Anna Ezekiel talks about Karoline von Günderrode, and about the German philosopher’s distinctive philosophy of free will, identity and death.
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A prosocial social network (www.spakhm.com)
In the past seven days Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol building, Twitter and Facebook banned Donald Trump from their platforms, Google and Apple banned Parler from their respective app stores, and AWS stopped providing Parler with infrastructure services. Twilio, Stripe and Shopify also stopped providing cloud services to Trump and Parler. I didn’t keep track of all the enforcement actions, but they’re easy to find if you’re interested.
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Philosopher File: Xenophanes (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
All about Xenophanes, the wandering Greek philosopher and poet who was fiercely critical of his contemporaries’ views on the nature of the gods.
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What is wisdom? (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
In the first lesson of season one, we’re asking about wisdom, what it is, how it matters, and how to cultivate it.
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10 ideas to take with you into 2021 (gregcampion.substack.com)
The Best of Intentional Wisdom – 2020 edition
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Home – Unintended Consequences (unintendedconsequenc.es)
This site is dedicated to the study of second-order effects, learning about systems, and developing frameworks to evaluate decisions. Learn about unintended consequences.
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Stoicism explained in exactly 500 words (www.complexitycondensed.com)
If practiced well, Stoicism can help you get rich and stay rich. I’m only half-joking. Stoicism is a school of Philosophy that originated in Athens in 300BC and endured for five centuries. It emphasized the importance of living a virtuous, rational, and disciplined life.
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Why Do We Trust Santa Claus? (mindmeld.substack.com)
Santa Claus has been a cultural mainstay for more than 200 years – but for a mythical figure, how does he inspire so much trust?
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Philosopher File: Jing Jiang on politics, weaving and gender (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Jing Jiang is one of the earliest women in Chinese recorded history to engage in philosophical debate. She was a thinker with a keen grasp of politics, and a considerable skill in argument.
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Philosopher File: Parmenides (www.lookingforwisdom.com)
Parmenides is one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all early Greek philosophers. Could he really have been arguing that nothing ever changed? And if so, why?
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We’re All Social Distancing on the Internet Too (digitalnative.substack.com)
The Fragmentation of Culture
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The dread of the Thames Police, 1841 (www.gethistories.com)
Will Inspector Grimstone follow his unfortunate constable into the mud? And can you help solve a modern mystery from the ooze?
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the Envy List #45: ET, are you out there? (lizcharlotte.substack.com)
Searching for Signs of Life during the Deepest, Darkest Winter EVER
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8 is the perfect growth number for your culture (letterdrop.co)
From zero to +8, not an 8x
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The artful female gaze (theknowhow.substack.com)
Photographer Bettina Bogar talks about the project she’s finally ready to reveal.
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A Guide to Breaking Up (thestudentoflife.substack.com)
“We may not be able to escape the agony of broken hearts but we can always strive to keep it to a very basic minimum.” – Alain De Botton
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how not to feel like crap right now (annehelen.substack.com)
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. The people I know who are dealing with Pandemic Month Eight — and the nauseating amounts of stress leading up to the election — are those who keep turning outwards, towards other people. That turn can manifest in so many ways, and it doesn’t necessarily require leaving the home. They’re involved in Mutual Aid Groups. They’re continuing social justice reform and advocacy. They’re volunteering with political campaigns, they’re participating in free book fairs, they’re writing letters to people in nursing homes, they’re training to be election monitors. They’re doing
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how email became work (annehelen.substack.com)
This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. There was a time when your inbox was filled with actual delights. When you would eagerly look forward to checking it, when the “You’ve Got Mail” sound wasn’t cliched and weird but triggered a Pavlovian response. When every thing you found there was from a friend, or a relative, or some rando you met while chatting in a
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Hopping to the Beat (simonostheimer.substack.com)
Discover why life’s always just peachy for this Saigon-based American, a craft beer aficionado who has turned his passion into his job, and just launched his first brew
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Whose Lives Matter? (feministgiant.substack.com)
On the Hatred and Willful Disregard for Black Women’s Lives
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What RBG’s real legacy will be (theknowhow.substack.com)
What we need are more Ruths—more women breaking into all the places where decisions are being made.
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The person on the other side of the crowd (vicki.substack.com)
Twitter, Facebook, all the usual suspects, and us
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📺 The dilemma of our time (throughthenoise.xyz)
Thoughts on The Social Dilemma, What is compression progress, How comedian Andrew Schulz managed to build an audience bigger than TV networks, after being rejected by them, Some awesome creative work from Ikea and Adobe.
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Femstreet turns three; Frameworks for product leadership; & More (femstreet.substack.com)
Your weekly Newsletter on Women in Tech and Venture Capital
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🎧 Chris Messina's thoughts on digital identity, design, and (socialstudies.substack.com)
Listen now (37 min) | Yo! I’m Brett! I am a founder and former Cognitive Science researcher. Social Studies is a semi-weekly newsletter for people building great products for humans. It includes recaps of what happened on Tech Twitter every week plus deep analysis using frameworks from Psychology, Economics, and the other Social Sciences.
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The working story of Chinese immigration to the Bay Area (goldenstatswarrior.substack.com)
A vastly changing population
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