Luke Burgis
@lukeburgis
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Author of Wanting & The One & the Ninety-Nine (coming soon) Founder/Director @clunyinstitute DMs not monitored → Inquiries: 👉 https://t.co/ys2U4tIMcc
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Joined March 2012
Simulacrum is my favorite word. Captures almost everything we see everywhere online.
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People don’t realise the weight of peer pressure. Some of these people are probably miserable. Yet, our irrational human brain thinks that wasting your life is better than being a black sheep.
9:15 pm Monday night. Not a single Eng has left yet. The only thing to do in life is build.
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I surprised my kid with something truly unique… just look at her face! 🎄What gift has made your kid this happy?
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When reading about terrible, egregious behavior in the news, there are two types of people: those who fully realize that they themselves are capable of that behavior, and those who can’t even imagine it. The latter are far more dangerous.
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Grilling with daughter: 10/10, highly recommend (Bulgogi beef fwiw)
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Myth and Metaphysics, a trialogue with @michael_nielsen, @DylanoA4 and @DrMichaelBonner, moderated by @lukeburgis, up now
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Link to the conversation:
clunyjournal.com
A quantum physicist, an essayist, and a historian discuss the role of myth in sense-making...
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I invited @michael_nielsen, @DrMichaelBonner, and @DylanoA4 to what was, at least at the start, an anonymous Signal chat on the theme of Myth. Here's what happened. Out today in @ClunyJournal.
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🚨 Actress Diane Keaton’s Cause of Death Revealed Read more
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EA slop peaked about 3 years ago, but here we are. I often wonder what would happen if we had to re-litigate the Arian heresy again, but with podcasts. (I'm not kidding—I often think about it. It's my version of the Roman Empire.)
My pitch to Sam Harris on how to do the most good. This is the first time in human history where we've had the tools and data to find the best ways to improve happiness. The latest research reveals the best charities have 1,000x the impact as standard ones.
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Some of you may be scandalized to learn that universities, as a norm, quite often take 60% of grant money (especially if it's federal) to cover "indirect costs", or university overhead, with the remaining 40% going to the actual research and work.
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Just realizing I signed up for some ridiculously expensive Premium version of Nanit (a baby cam) when my daughter was first born, which I intended to cancel after a few months but just never did. (She's now 2+) I'm becoming radicalized. Make all subscriptions illegal.
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Michael Strong is one of the most important minds in education today. If you care about this issue, follow him.
I have seen hundreds of kids who are anxious, depressed, and suicidal in one environment become happy and well in a different environment. This pattern has repeated across three decades and many schools. Teen suicides have risen 30 to 50 percent in the last decade, 300 percent
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You must have an “opinion”--and better a belief--about the one, and the ninety-nine. The fabric of our society depends on it. From today’s lectionary:
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Talk to your kids. Explain all the things, warmly, lovingly, routinely, enthusiastically.
Flight from NY to Denver. Mom one row ahead has been speaking to her very young child using sophisticated language from takeoff to touchdown: control tower, aerodynamics, trajectory, manuever. A one-woman, 30-million word gap in action. Impressive.
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The softcover is out today! And I see that Amazon has finally lowered the price of it to beneath the hardcover price, as God intended. Thank you, @morganhousel, for your kind words—and for having applied some of the ideas in this book to money and wealth. Order it for
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And instincts. Most importantly, instincts. That is what chatGPT is killing. Most evolved to fly toward the brightest thing in the sky. When they couldn't evolve fast enough to keep up with technology, they began flying directly into lights designed to kill them.
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Hollywood Animal is available with 25% off. Play “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” new update now!
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If our country lacks intermediary institutions of education—in other words, if the only thing between graduating from college and dying is the State, and there are no healthy forms of formative association, no educational rites aside from listening to podcasts and reading
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Virtue Ethics is critical, but it often comes across as stale and stagnant to a world that would eagerly embrace it if it felt more alive—if people actually knew why it matters, and if it had practical application in their everyday lives. The entire field needs to undergo a
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Make sure the young men in your life are ready for a successful future!
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Forced rootedness (serfdom) is wrong; that doesn't mean we should treat the forced rootlessness of today as a virtue.
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