the long thinking.
essays on being human in the age of the machine — Renaissance minds, creativity, and the examined life. slower than the newsletter, and meant to be. for the news and the tools, that goes out twice a week.
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amor fati, or: how to love the machine you're afraid of.
Jensen Huang says the future belongs to those who make peace with the exponential. the Stoics had a phrase for that two thousand years earlier. what they knew that the accelerationists don't.
→magnifica humanitas: reading the first encyclical of the AI age.
Pope Leo XIV wrote a letter to a world learning to think alongside machines. it is not the reactionary document its critics expected, and not the surrender its boosters hoped for. it is something stranger.
→the polymath was never a genius. he was just unafraid.
we mythologize da Vinci as a once-in-history mind. the more useful reading is that he simply refused to respect the borders between disciplines — a refusal the machine now makes cheap for the rest of us.
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