Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz

@nicholaspaul26

Director of Development • Connecting the next generation of long-term thinkers • Collecting philosophy books.

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2009

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  1. Feb 2

    Earth physically rotates in 23hours 56min relative to distant stars – a Sidereal Day, BUT it takes 24hours to rotate relative to the Sun – a Solar Day The difference? Earth orbits the Sun, so the Sun appears to move (down, in the vid), which means Earth needs +4mins to catch up!

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  2. Feb 1

    "we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images.... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and even rarer, thing that might be worth saying." -Gilles Deleuze

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  3. Jan 31

    Pauline Oliveros, attention vs. awareness: “Attention is narrow, pointed and selective. Awareness is broad, diffuse and inclusive. Both have a tunable range: attention can be honed to a finer and finer point. Awareness can be expanded until it seems all inclusive."

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  4. "For us, anything that we're saying, we do it in mind that our seven [future] generations are sitting with us already." -Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook on the Lakota's 7th Generation principle.

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  5. Jan 30

    The role physical distance plays in original thought is underrated.

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  6. Jan 29

    Woolly mammoth emoji, perfect for tweeting about de-extinction

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  7. Jan 29

    We keep counting time. We have the sensation time is running out, and we bug ourselves with this. Time is nothing but an abstract measure of motion. We are living in an eternal Now.

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  8. Jan 29

    For those in Barcelona: I'll be giving a talk at tonight about counterculture and technology. Come hit it up and learn about how hippies became hackers:

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  9. Jan 26

    The right metaphor can change a person's life

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  10. Jan 23

    One has to wonder about the people who accept this as a metric.

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  11. Jan 22

    This Friday I'm co-hosting the happy hour with ! Join us at from ~5–10pm to discuss and the long-term future

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  12. Jan 22

    The biggest life hack I’ve discovered is to move more slowly throughout the day. At home, in the workplace, in the grocery store. Wander through and soak in the sights. You’ll see things you couldn’t see before. Life is so much more enjoyable this way.

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  13. So much prescience and wisdom in this interview from 1995:

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  14. Jan 21
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  15. Jan 20

    The point of writing philosophy is to be a catalyst to other people’s thought, not to set down the truth for all time. There are many different ways of doing this, some of them literary.

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  16. Jan 20

    You've really got to assume responsibility for it. You've got to say “yes” to what happens.

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  17. Jan 18

    I am free only to the extent that I interrupt escalations and that I am able to immunize myself against infections of opinion. Precisely this continues to be the philosopher’s mission in society. -Peter Sloterdijk

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  18. Jan 18

    As Socrates showed us, there exist few quicker ways to make enemies than to ask the right questions of those vested in the wrong answers.

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  19. Jan 18

    Important Op-Ed by Esther Dyson (the founding chair of ICANN). "Dot-org, which was built to support nonprofits globally, is being sold to the highest bidder with almost no public discussion or consideration of alternatives."

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  20. Jan 18

    Some rooms look inaccessible. You may stare at the door for years, yearning for what's on the other side. And when you finally work up the courage to try the door, you realize it's unlocked.

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