Untranslatable words
A language’s untranslatable words, that have no direct equivalent in other languages, actually clue you in to the intricacies of the culture.
Why does life feel faster with every year
As we start to see life’s patterns at progressively higher levels, the lower level of perception become more and more invisible.
A More Humane Representation of Thought
As a culture, we’ve contorted ourselves around the limitations of our static mediums.
BCI 2022: Musical Taste Decoded
What if Spotify had direct access to your musical taste? It would instantly know whether or not you like a song as you listen to it.
A collection of sci-fi short stories
The genius of this story is in the structure - Ted introduces a parallel narrative that is set in the past.
How to Take Smart Notes
The core principle is getting compound interest on past thinking - never having to think through the same idea more than once.
Tools for Thought: Roam Research
If you think of creativity as connecting distant ideas, then Roam supercharges the process by making the connections easily searchable.
Knowledge graphs: the closest thing to direct knowledge transfer
Given how central the sharing of knowledge is, it's natural to ask whether computers can be used as tools to streamline this process.
Freeing up our mental resources
Just like open tabs in a browser, open loops take up valuable bandwidth in your brain.
The internet is changing how we think
When we do end up Googling something, our brain encodes where the information is found (the query) rather than the information itself.
