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Learning How to Selfhost by Adam Shand

Making and Breaking by Adam Shand

Too late by Adam Shand

It's a Complicated Relationship by Adam Shand

Contradiction and Ambiguity by Adam Shand

The 8 Second Hack by Liraz Siri

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy

The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman

Quotes

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

The paradox of a disaster is that it brings out the best in so many of us. The paradox of comfort is that it brings out the worst in so many of us.

I think what we fear most about finding a mind equal to our own, but of another species, is that they will truly see us—and find us lacking, and turn away from us in disgust. That contact with another mind will puncture our species' self-satisfied feeling of worth. We will have to confront, finally, what we truly are, and the damage we have done to our home. But that confrontation, perhaps, is the only thing that will save us. The only thing that will allow us to look our short-sightedness, our brutality, and our stupidity in the face, and change.

It’s always our leaders who want to fight, never the people.

The bugs are the feature. It shows that the team is building …

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed — and who try to make slaves of all of us — and they have their music and we have ours.

Even though my breath is shallow, at least I can still breathe.

The old world is dying, and the new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

I was bred for war darling
be it love
or chaos
everything I do
is to the death.

The easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes. You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can't have both.

When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition.

The scientist lives in a world of matching, their idea of proof is just matching evidence against evidence. Any breakthrough beyond that paradigm is as disturbing to the scientist as to the educator.

The finest of souls are the ones who tasted and swallowed the pain, and then avoided making others taste its bitterness.

There is hardly anything more stupid and dangerous than putting important decisions in the hands of people who don't have to pay a price for being wrong.

Never assume the goal of a rule is to be fully enforced.

Optimization is the process of taking something that works and replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.

I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes Gobi Desert Opera because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.

Not a lot is to be gained by simply flinging lit matches.

You never gain something but that you lose something

Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.

Ashes to metal, dust to concrete.

Complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

Everyone appreciates your honesty until you are honest with them. Then, you're an asshole.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.