Many are worried about AI taking inspiration from their ideas. It couldn't be more misguided. The internet is a copy-paste machine - being copied is the goal...| www.hottakes.space
Human beings have agency. We've been gaslit by modernity we don't| www.hottakes.space
Desire for ever-increasing material wealth or followers is mid, nurturing craft, discipline and relationships offers true enlightenment| www.hottakes.space
There's a cottage industry of creators and audiences watching others torch their potential on empty, solipsistic games (or sleeping with 1,000 people)| www.hottakes.space
The internet used to surface cool and creative things, now it mostly doesn't| www.hottakes.space
Let's discuss a favorite meme of the FOMO crowd| www.hottakes.space
Sharing from personal experience - I'm not classically trained and have written 10 albums, software makes it possible. And, no AI is required (might even ruin the fun).| www.hottakes.space
Many people, save for perhaps artists, lack the transcendent in their lives, which is precisely the reason they're depressed, anxious and lack direction| www.hottakes.space
There are pathological levels of optimization in modernity, much of it makes no sense, and the last few percent isn't even worth it. You're a human, not an insect...| www.hottakes.space
I did this over the weekend and it seemed like a good benchmark for fitness. I posted about it, some disagreed, so let's discuss why they're wrong...| www.hottakes.space
Finding joy despite being trapped in a bureaucratic dystopia| www.hottakes.space
A simple mental model to bring joy: the less context something has or the more that context is faked, the less you should care about it| www.hottakes.space
Maybe AI eventually lets us escape Earth and live forever, but in the near-term it will create two tiers of knowledge-economy worker| www.hottakes.space
Everything is getting blander: creative sectors like music and movies are a shell of themselves, entertainment championed and art mocked. But no one is forcing you to join the circus...| www.hottakes.space
In creative fields, managers and organizations more concerned with process than results will ultimately optimize themselves down to nothing| www.hottakes.space