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So you need to ditch that simple model of art versus entertainment. And even ‘distraction’ is just a stepping stone toward the real goal nowadays—which is *addiction*.
The State of the Culture, 2024
Ted Gioia
In the same way that credit unions are controlled by their members and usually better than banks, Vanguard is owned by their clients and provides a much better deal than almost any other financial company. Even better, their incentives are aligned with yours. Vanguard provides well-balanced indexed funds at a very low cost.
Nine Hard-Won Lessons About Money and Investing
mattcutts.com
Simply put, the brain needs to model a ‘self’ in order to predict future states that the ‘self’ might inhabit. Along this line of thought, [Friston (2018)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X#bib0300) suggested that self-awareness arises whenever an organism generates predictions about the consequences of its actions, and thus aims to minimize the *expected* surprise resulting from those actions.
From Many to (N)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind
sciencedirect.com
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