🎙📚What books and relationships and poems and writers have been your Way-Markers in life? with A. A. Kostas #writers#writeSky#amreading#waythroughlife
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People who age happier and healthier tend to do 7 things:
They don’t smoke, exercise regularly (but not excessively), maintain a healthy weight, and are mindful with alcohol or other substances.
But one of the most interesting ideas that @arthurbrooks underscores is that the "happy-well" also have 3 less obvious traits.
They keep learning, they develop real skill in dealing with life’s problems, and they prioritize love—through a strong marriage, close friendships, or both.
“We lose something important about being human if AI becomes our primary contact with the unknown, our primary experience of the inexplicable.” —an interview with Erin Maglaque https://t.co/7PfWJt34gN
Good times talking with Andrea Hiott at Love & Philosophy, using my song "The Big Machine" as a window into technology, complexity, curation, games, language, consciousness, and the future of work:
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Causal inference nuts: @Radiolab has a great podcast this week about the pitfalls of using correlational evidence in policymaking.
The empirical case is the self-esteem movement of the 1980s.
Would be a good listen for those who teach causal inference.
Rationality and robust science are ways we care. It's not easy being a philosopher & cognitive scientist in the academic world and still showing your vulnerable side, but it's always worth it. Post from midnight the last day of 2025: https://t.co/B3PyS8vuiN
"A bracing, philosophically rich argument for writing well as a personal journey and a social good." (@KirkusReviews)
Philosophy of Writing (out now) suggests a major reconsideration of how and why we write.
Order: https://t.co/cEIdNHT2xq
Preview: https://t.co/TlzjwurIuE
Loving to Know. Michael Polanyi, and Subsidiary Focal Integration: difference between information and knowledge with Esther Lightcap Meek #polanyi#tacitknowledge#loveandphilosophy https://t.co/iAlGAsEZca