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   Lessons from shutting down an AI Fashion Stylist app used by millions(prtkagwl.substack.com)

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   Show HN: How thinking about death made things feel lighter(prtkagwl.substack.com)

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   Seek more awe in the new year(tim.blog)

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   Show HN: I stopped using meditation techniques and just sat still for 30 days(prtkagwl.substack.com)

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   by btwnplaces 9mo ago

   What feels counter-intuitive here is that the variable most people obsess over, load, turns out to matter far less than who you are. Intuitively we expect optimization to work like engineering. Change the input, change the output. Lift heav
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   by btwnplaces 9mo ago

   This reminded me of E.M. Forster’s line from Howards End: “Only connect.” Not in the grand, ideological sense, but in the mundane, logistical one. It's funny how life optimizes for comfort and autonomy, but those optimizations quietly