Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we’ll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
Everything that we design is designing us back.
There’s always going to be the circumstances you can’t plan for. There’s always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I’m going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I’m going to try.
Awe is the best drug in the world.
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution’s secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.
Post-Scarcity Age, you don’t pay for things. Abundance.