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Not knowing what’s coming next—which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future—presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Web3 is the selling of a lie. A lie that depends on buy-in from those that can least afford it. A lie that brings casino mentality to all of society. A lie that serves as a form of regressive taxation in service of a deregulatory paradise for the wealthy.
Neil Turkewitz on Twitter
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Call the first narrative “Free America.” In the past half century it’s been the most politically powerful of the four. Free America draws on libertarian ideas, which it installs in the high-powered engine of consumer capitalism. The freedom it champions is very different from Alexis de Tocqueville’s art of self-government. It’s personal freedom, without other people—the negative liberty of “Don’t tread on me.”
George Packer
theatlantic.com
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