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The rise and fall of bitcoin, in terms of its original ambition, serves as a cautionary tale in the digital age—it reveals how ingenious innovations that might challenge power and the consolidation of capital become co-opted and colonised by capital.
In Digital We Trust
nature.com
Do not resign to give up what makes you happy. And don't believe that time management is the answer—it's part of the problem.
[Segmenting time destroys its most valuable quality: flow](https://simone.org/single-tasking/). That 0.01% spark survives not because we've managed our calendar better, but because we've learned to protect what matters.
The next time someone suggests better time management as the solution, remember: your exhaustion isn't a personal failing. It's what happens when **ping culture** treats attention as a resource to be mined rather than a capacity to be nurtured.
The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband
Kōdō Simone
Knowing and *living* are different. And right now, the mere idea of "knowing" is winning out, when it's hilariously insufficient to do anything effective or meaningful or good. The internet and many voices using it would have us convinced that because there's so much to know and because someone else knows more and because a software tool can tell you things it "knows," then all of that should cause you to sit down, shut up, stop feeling confident in what you've done or seen or felt. Because what's your life in the face of infinite knowledge?
Turns out, everything.
The Best Response to AI Slop, Infinite Advice, and Online Noise Is From Robin Williams
jayacunzo.com
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