The common defect of all mystical systems previous to that of the Aeon whose Law is Thelema is that there has been no place for Laughter. – Aleister Crowley
“The future is not a career.” De Tonnac agreed: “We cannot predict the future. These days the present is constantly shedding its skin.”
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It is the mark of a genius like Blake, or Dostoevsky, or Lawrence, that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us.
- Alfred kazin
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly. —Vitalik Buterin
A common tactic social networks use to get content creators to promote more content is to let creators achieve a certain scale of audience, and then to adjust the algorithm so the creators no longer receive the same levels of attention organically.
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