Randomness #3

Esta semana fallé en mi propósito de no anestesiar mi cabeza con social media en dos de sus siete días y el contenido que consumí giró alrededor de lo técnico, lo cual considero muy específico para que sea interesante a los tres pelagatos que leen esto. Sin embargo, acá lo rescatable de esta eterna semana que termina:

The Acceleration of Addictiveness by Paul Graham (~5 mins)

No tengo mucho análisis para hacer más allá de lo que dice el texto pero reconforta pensar que no estoy loco tratando de luchar contra cosas que se pueden volverse adictivas en el sentido que habla el texto. https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much. The closest is the colloquial sense of "addictive." That usage has become increasingly common during my lifetime. And it's clear why: there are an increasing number of things we need it for

Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly

We'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. That's what bit me. I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it.

We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (~15 mins) transcripción | video

Hay semanas que suelen pesar más que otras y volver a escuchar este discurso de grado me hizo cuestionarme y a la vez me ayudó a sobrevivir la semana que termina. Acá los links a la transcripción o al video.

Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education–least in my own case–is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualise stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.

learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship… pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

Ryan Reynolds on Anxiety (~1 h)

Via Tim Ferriss llegué a un podcast con Ryan Reynolds y me llamó mucho la atención la manera como entiende la ansiedad. La conversación parte de este post en instagram.

To all those like me who overschedule, overthink, overwork, over worry and over everything, please know you're not alone.

Acá un minuto del podcast donde discute la frase que está justo arriba y podría afirmar que lo siento de la misma manera, con sus ups and downs. Todo mientras escribo estas palabras a la 1.56am del domingo.

Cositas varias

The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works (~10 mins). Una recopilación de máximas de Charlie Munger sobre cómo vivir.

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (~2 mins). Lo que Sam Altman (CEO de OpenAi) hubiese querido saber, esto mucho más relacionado con crear empresa.

Post secret: Valentine's edition. (~5 mins). Un blog donde la gente envía sus secretos para ser publicados anónimamente cada domingo. Esta semana publican algunos relacionados con San Valentin pero es una página para visitar todas las semanas.