What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploration leads to a framework I've used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
On Making
TLDR: I gain a lot of fulfillment by making things. I don't consider things built by others at my request to be made by me, and are therefore much less fulfilling. And then I feel sad. This article starts strong and then heads off into the weeds.
Collective Flourishing
Our tools for navigating the future haven't kept pace with its growing complexity. Creating new systems that integrate a deep understanding of people, profound advances in modelling and foresight, and expressive interfaces could help us see, reason, and choose a better future together.
Developing creative identity
I was a theoretical physicist from 1992 to 2007. It was a romantic activity, exploring the fundamental nature of the cosmos! I became a university professor, wrote papers and books, and got to explore some of the most beautiful ideas ever discovered. In parallel, I also developed a fascination with the social systems humanity uses to make knowledge. Systems like the university or peer review are immensely deep inventions: our discovery system is itself one of the great inventions of humanity! But I believed a radically better discovery system must be possible. I became obsessed with this idea, eventually giving up tenure to work on it1. My first big project was to write a book helping develop and spread the fundamental ideas underlying the modern open science movement.
What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences
A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.
Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It | Nat Eliason
Author, writer, and creator sharing insights on learning, writing, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and more.
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
NASA
Resonite
A novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing. Or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.
(PDF) Building a Conceptual Framework: Philosophy, Definitions, and Procedure
PDF | In this paper the author proposes a new qualitative method for building conceptual frameworks for phenomena that are linked to multidisciplinary... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides
From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life
How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides
From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life
Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?
A long-standing finding in the causal learning literature is that adults struggle to identify conjunctive causal rules, where an effect requires the simultaneous presence of multiple causes, while...
A compass for a Life-Affirming Economy
This is an invitation to stand at the intersection of Self, Culture, and Science and imagine what flourishing in a life-affirming economy…
Expecting researcher taste and judgement to become increasingly valuable (this is from Anthropic's Opus 5.5 system card) anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5-system-card
