“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The saying that it takes much more energy to displace than install falsehood is itself a falsehood
1) Sticky "falsehoods" are beneficial or useful for survival (placebo, superstition)
2) Falsehood can only persist if #Lindy
3) Nonhelpful falsehoods tend to collapse very quicky
We still haven’t quite figured out the right UI paradigms for deep work…
But for close collaboration on a deadline, technology is now *great*. AirDrop, Slack, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Google Docs, Zoom. Things are so much better than they were a decade ago.
To understand the probabilistic argument for the simulation hypothesis, notice that the number of characters that have lived and died in video games is far greater than the number of people that have lived and died in history.