Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
A revolution in our sense of self | Nick Chater
Psychologists have tried to plumb the depths of human motivation to make sense of our behaviour. But our inner mental world is a fiction, sustained by constant improvisation
Maintainer spotlight: Siân Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Sean Griffin.
John Tasioulas on Twitter / X
Intelligence is highly pluralistic. People can have high levels of it in one domain (maths, abstract reasoning) while being deficient in other domains (ethics, social interaction). When one kind of intelligence gets heavily socially valorised among all others, it encourages the…— John Tasioulas (@JTasioulas) October 6, 2026
The Inner Life of Liberalism - Aaron Ross Powell’s Blog
The practices that make your life better are the same ones that sustain a free society. It's time liberalism took that seriously.
Indie Thinkers
A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.
This column will change your life: just sit down and think
'No wonder we don't dwell on what's inside: that would underline the loneliness of existence,' says Oliver Burkeman
How to Break the Academic Silo Mindset - The Community Solution Education System
What’s stopping higher education from reaching its full potential? In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz sits down with Dr. Beronda Montgomery—biologist, author of Lessons from Plants, and former Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College—to unpack why silos persist in colleges and universities, and how those divisions hold institutions […]
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur.
Kyle Booten
Noöhacking1 is the title of my current research program. I use this term for ways that artists and everyday digital media users build and repurpose algorithmic tools in order to take care of their own minds/spirits, an especially challenging and important task amidst a digital milieu that seems designed to make us alienated, unintelligent, and miserable.
Why I work on self-improving AI despite the risks - Jeff Clune
Why I work on self-improving AI despite the risks. Jeff Clune.
Interdependent Thoughts
Bookmarked Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker
Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life
CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.
StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse
Jeff Atwood wants to improve the entire internet. That's always been his goal a better place. He started by co-founding StackOverflow, a question-and-answer site for software developers that revolutionized the way they learn online, and eventually, this evolved into StackExchange, a network of Q&A sites spanning myriad topics. Now, Atwood has renewed his crusade with Discourse, an open source application for building online message boards that he hopes will become as ubiquitous as WordPress.
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy