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Igor Schwarzmann. Research, Strategy, Foresight. Co-founder Third Wave. – Redistributing Agency.

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The line between irony and product marketing blurs every day a little bit more.

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Musk buys Twitter …

And I keep thinking about this quote from "About a Boy". Yes, that cheesy but actually a really good romcom with Hugh Grant.

"All men are islands. And what's more, this is the time to be one. This is an island age. A hundred years ago, for example, you had to depend on other people. No one had TV or CDs or DVDs or home espresso makers. As a matter of fact they didn't have anything cool. Whereas now you can make yourself a little island paradise. With the right supplies, and more importantly the right attitude, you can become sun-drenched, tropical, a magnet for young Swedish tourists."

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NFT Fantasy 2: Why NFTs Don't Enable Knowing What You Own In Other Games

We do that already. Inter-game communication is far less complicated than you might think.

People who are excited about web3 don’t understand how the current works.

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1988 Smith & Wesson ad

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What happened to the two column ad actually? When did it go out of fashion?

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https://brunomacaes.substack.com/p/thich-nhat-hanh-the-search-for-mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh, the search for mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, passed away peacefully at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. His theory of mindfulnes

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The forestry worker taking wild rabbits to higher grounds during a flood, 1979

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In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell

LIKE most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous c

"I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached."

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China’s Two-Ocean Strategy Puts India in a Pincer

The Chinese foreign minister’s island hopping is the latest sign of contestation over the Indo-Pacific.

"If New Delhi theoretically benefits from geographic proximity, Beijing brings a lot more resources—economic and military—into play and exploits the natural tendency of small nations to seek to balance a dominant neighbor."

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Murmuring the Moon

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I can get on board with this.

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The mood on self-driving cars seems to be changing. Here's a car-friendly outlet that tells the people how it is. And what is even more surprising, so many people in the comments are in agreement.

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Whenever they say that software is eating the world, it would be prudent to remind "them" that culture eats software any fucking time of the day.