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The Future of Employment May Be “in” Agriculture
No matter how many ways I think about the future of employment, I keep coming back to one answer: agriculture. I have spent 16 years in the software industry. For the last 1.5 years, I haven’t written a single line of code without AI. And I have written a lot of code. The speed and… Read more
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The Patriotism We Owe Ourselves
What if people showed even half as much patriotism toward their inner world as they do toward the outer world? We spend enormous parts of our lives exploring the world outside ourselves. We learn its history, defend its boundaries, build its institutions, protect its symbols, and attach deep emotions to pieces of land separated by… Read more
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Food: The Hidden Force That Shaped Human History
We were hunter-gatherers for most of our existence. If the entire history of Homo sapiens were compressed into one hour, agriculture would have appeared only about 3–4 minutes ago. In other words, the way we live today is extremely recent when measured against the span of human existence. Agriculture began roughly 10,000–12,000 years ago and… Read more
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Simplify, Simplify! How Less Can Lead to More
In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden, a book written after his experiment of living simply in a small cabin near Walden Pond. More than 170 years later, his words still feel remarkably relevant. “Our life is frittered away by detail,” he wrote, before offering his famous advice: “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” He was arguing that… Read more
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The School Bench We Never Had
In 7th grade, we were asked to bring our own mat. Every Wednesday, benches used to come out. It was a celebration when we got to use the benches instead of sitting on the floor. Most of us were not used to such luxury. So, naturally, we ruined it. We would draw lines to partition… Read more
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Things You Should Quit for a Quieter Life
Noise makes life complicated. Internal noise, digital noise, external noise. It eats up so much of your brain’s capacity that you tend not to realize when you have stopped having time for the important things you care about. People generally complain that they do not have time. It is because they are preoccupied with adhering… Read more
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