A weekly newsletter with findings, practical wisdom, and interesting conversations from across the web, curated by yours truly.
Contemplations
Meditations, practical philosophy, and the occasional restless thought.
Hey folks,
I missed last week; no doubt you noticed.
We’re doing a bit of a soft relaunch next week. I will be writing under my name (You are stunned to learn I’m not named Tullius, I know) and with a new domain. The newsletter will move from weekly to occasional, which means sometimes it will be weekly, sometimes more often, and sometimes less. The mission, of course, will remain the same. I am pretty excited about this, big things to come.
If you’re currently an email subscriber, you don’t have to do anything, you’ll be imported. If you are not an email subscriber, but would like to be, you can follow along here: https://nils.blog/subscribe — and if you’re not interested, just make sure to unsubscribe this week.
Onward and Upward!
Insights
Curated stories and ideas.
All-you-can-eat media is our fault and our problem: Joan Westenberg is a terrific blogger, and this is a great read. There is a content crisis, in large part because platforms like netflix and spotify have created the illusion that content is cheap. We have become accustomed to paying one flat fee for an all-you-can-read/watch/listen buffet. This is ultimately bad for everyone.
The Thiel-Hoffman Face-off in Sun Valley: You’re gonna need to make a free account to read this, but it basically boils down to (in my view) this: If you look at cyberpunk literature, it’s always about the corporations running everything. It’s not. It wouldn’t (won’t?) be. Corporations are made up of a plurality of people with competing agendas. They are big, complex, and difficult to change. Billionaire’s, however, are a single individual with absolute authority over their priorities and with boatloads of money. I mean just stupid amount of money. A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is nearly 32 years. And I think they may be much more dangerous than the corporations.
Dialogue
Voices, perspectives, and conversations from our community and across the web.
Why You Always Want More, And How To Fix It
A highly recommended podcast episode.
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