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Isaac Wilks

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Without haste, but without rest. Prev @Yale

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Joined February 2018
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RT @rSanti97: At @IFP, we’re launching a newsletter!. It’s called Statecraft, and it’s an interview series about how policymakers actually….
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RT @daniel_bring: Delighted to share my first piece in @AmericanAffrs: a history of postwar Vietnam’s industrial transformation. https://t.….
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RT @GoodGuyGuaranty: Tour de force essay on zoomers from @wilks_isaac that, among many other topics, sort of synthesizes two themes I keep….
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RT @rSanti97: Isaac is extremely clear-sighted on the Zoomer question. a must read
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RT @AmericanAffrs: It is often said that today’s 18-year-olds behave like the 15-year-olds of the 1990s, but this is altogether too generou….
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2 years
For @AmericanAffrs, I reviewed the "zoomer studies" literature and discourse. Focus on technological addiction has obscured the deeper problem: a social order which is failing in its most basic functions of education, health, and personal development.
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The 19th century was incomprehensible. You had country lawyers publishing multivolume works on Shakespeare, writing in places like the "Omaha Democrat-Gazetteer" that remains unchallenged by any MFA, boys who grew up scratching the earth for food covering a continent in steel.
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Space program in Renaissance-era Ferrara (Midjourney)
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for his law. Centuries after Moore the man is gone, Moore the Law will survive, either as the turning point in the beginning of a new era for mankind or longingly as the metronome of a brief, golden interval now lost.". -Michael Malone.
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RIP Gordon Moore. "Long after everyone else in the Silicon Valley story is forgotten—Terman and Hewlett and Packard, Noyce, Zuckerberg, Brin, and Page, even Steve Jobs— Gordon Moore will still be remembered. Not for his career in high tech, though it is all but unequaled, but. .
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RT @deankissick: The contemporary obsession with suffixes (-core, -pilled, -maxing, -mode, -adjacent) signifies a breakdown in descriptive….
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If you want to solve youth depression all you have to do is make this real.
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When I was about 12 I became a Foreman on a Minecraft server that was building a 1-to-1 scale replica of Middle Earth. They gave me a team of corvée laborers and I’d have them dig ditches, redirect canals etc. This was something you did in the Qing Dynasty in like 1895.
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Isaac Wilks
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A traveling monk from northern Italy describes the very orderly feeding of thousands of apes and monkeys at a temple in Yuan-era Hangzhou around AD 1330:
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RT @AmericanAffrs: Most emerging markets have not found an engine of durable growth comparable to manufacturing. Thus most “developing” cou….
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Perhaps the greatest lie we are told about mental health is that it consists of smoothing and denying your emotions rather than affirming and channeling them. The golden mean comes from extremes; the median is a small death.
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It is good to experience extremes—sleeping with the windows open in the autumn, lying in hot sun, bursts of exertion, total inactivity, eating a delicious tin of sardines, fasting, abject despair, joy, etc. This is true “moderation”.
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