Hi explorer!

Welcome to April’s 2nd volume of Rabbit Holes.

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⭐️ Instead of your life’s purpose - There is a common misperception of what makes life meaningful.  It is the idea that we have a special purpose in life – and that once we find it, all our confusion ends. 

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Nature paper: Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving

Climbing the wrong hill by Chris Dixon

⭐️ I’ve been loving these quotes from Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum lately:

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
“And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Tweets

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

36 today...weird age! One of the only ages where you feel simultaneously very old and very young. I’m insanely fortunate to do what I love with people I admire. Seems a good opportunity to share some things that have helped me along the way...

George Mack @george__mack

THREAD: The top 0.1% of ideas I’ve stumbled upon on the internet.The rabbit holes (without the distractions).

⭐️ looking closely at the world - How the pandemic taught Craig Mod (a designer in Japan) to look closely at the world, and how he hopes to carry that forward out the other side.

⭐️ The Philosophy of René Girard: An 8-Week Course - i’ll be taking this course starting mid-June, taught by Geoff Shullenberger, PhD. The live cohort course format has been one picking up steam lately, and i’m excited to experience it in the context of a philosophy course.

IndieThinkers.org community - found this community recently touted as the world's only private community for independent intellectuals, where you can learn from the internet's most independent thinkers and creators.

Show: Philosophers on Twitch playing Flight Simulator - lol love this pairing with topics like “mankind's enslavement to wheat” and “when the astrology read hits just right”.

⭐️ why astrology will become a dominant belief system - astrology is currently experiencing a kind of Renaissance, both from within and without. The author explains its rise by addressing 3 criticisms commonly leveraged against it:

above article is from type studies which you may want to check out

Philosophy syllabus put together by my friend Stephanie

[Online Magazine] Sienna Solstice - Sienna Solstice is an antidisciplinary and multimedia journal that integrates art and science into one cohesive publication. 

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Welldom Studio @WelldomStudio

how I strive to live:"Act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.

Naval @naval

Material progress doesn’t make us happier. If it did, the ancients must have been a miserable bunch.Instead we compete for status, an older, zero-sum game.We don’t want things, we want to be things.*A rational person recounts their blessings and rejects society’s games.

⭐️ New Newsletter Alert: Techcare by Michelle Ma

Michelle is a member of our rabbit holes community and recently launched a new newsletter that i’m all for: exploring what it means to build tech that cares, so that we can take care — of ourselves, our communities, and the world around us. It’s a philosophy that seeks to push self-care beyond the “self”, and into community and structural care. A virtuous cycle, one informs the other.

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⭐️ Ways of Curating On Life, Art, and Knowledge by Interintellect salon hostess Patricia Hurducas - When we open our eyes, curation exists all around us. This salon talk has opened up a rabbit hole for me to understand what curation actually is. It introduced me to Ways of Curating by Hans Obrist, which i’m currently reading. I like his definition of curation best:

What type of curation do you find yourself drawn to most?

5 books on curation if you’re interested in diving deeper:

⭐️ Interview with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee who conducts research at UPenn directed at understanding the neural bases of spatial attention and representation. He seeks to understand the biological bases for beauty and aesthetic experiences.

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Why do certain spaces evoke specific responses? The neuroscience of architecture is a field that is just starting to garner attention.

For me, this space evokes movement and maybe even progress in an abstract sense. It is the Rundetaarn in Copenhagen, one of Europe’s oldest functioning astronomical observatories.

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This is a section of a lamp. I am convinced that beauty in everyday objects contributes to our wellbeing.

Creatures of Hope: Cheery Illustrated Monsters Strut through New York City Streets by Loe Lee.

Polka Dot-Filled Exhibition by Yayoi Kusama Sprawls Across New York Botanical Garden

Lacime Architects draw from ancient Chinese texts to design a modern edifice

Photography © CAAI
Photography © CAAI
Photography © CAAI

A Neuroscientist and a Physicist Used AI to Recreate a Lost Painting Buried Under a Beloved Picasso Canvas (and sold it as a NFT)

X-ray radiography of Pablo Picasso's La Miséreuse accroupie (The Crouching Woman), 1902, reveals a landscape hidden beneath the visible surface. Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Oxia Palus recreated this Santiago Rusiñol

A poem I loved recently: Weighing the Dog Billy Collins

⭐️ How people get rich now - A good primer on the primary ways people have gotten rich in the past, and how people are getting rich today.

Guide to Product-Market fit by Casey Winters

How to start a new country by Balaji - The network state is built cloud first, land last. Rather than starting with the physical territory, we begin with a digital community. Touching on the concept of reverse diaspora: a community that forms first on the internet, builds a culture online, and only then comes together in person to build dwellings and structures.

Speaking of cloud-first countries, check out this Map of Reddit - so dope.

World Building by Alex Danco

⭐️ lofi.cafe - been jamming to this collection of lofi radios lately

HBS Product Management course readings - designed by Professor Thomas Eisenmann and Prem Ramaswami for students looking to go into PM or start their own companies.

Tweets

Victor @vponamariov

How to design almost any UI element. A curated list of 58 articles 👇

I asked community members what piece of content has shifted their mental models the most, either recently or ever. Here were their responses:

Yours,

Patricia