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Buying a whole chicken, cutting it into pieces and wrestling with the bones, finding ways to really get the most out of every part—that’s enough! It is the antidote to mindless consumption. And while thoughtfulness is not the only requirement of a climate-conscious diet, it is a necessary condition for one.
If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?
Eve Andrews
Achieving this will also require us to develop a good enough relation to our natural world, one in which we recognize both the abundance and the limitations of the planet we share with infinite other life forms, each seeking its own path toward good-enoughness. If we do manage any of these things, it will not be because we have achieved greatness, but because we have recognized that none of them are achievable until greatness itself is forgotten.
Opinion | the Good-Enough Life
nytimes.com
Scott wanted A.I. to empower the kind of resourceful but digitally unschooled people he’d grown up among. This was a striking argument—one that some technologists would consider willfully naïve, given widespread concerns about A.I.-assisted automation eliminating jobs such as the grocery-store cashier, the factory worker, or the movie extra.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
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