Tara Chklovski

@ericries ‘s Lean Startup was the foundation of what we taught hundreds of thousands of @Technovation students.
His new book says something harder. Build a guardian for your organization's spirit.
Yes, the spirit exists. Even though it's not cool to say that.
Aug 19, 9am PT: luma.com/co0h26ys

The philosopher Bloch says that we can't actually access the present moment because we're too close to it. There's no analytical distance between us and our own "right-now," and so it appears to us as darkness; we live it, but we can't see it, can't represent it, can't even fully experience it.
This really articulates the AI-driven confusion I am feeling these days: "located in our own blind spot, in the darkness of the lived moment." You only know what you were doing, feeling, becoming after it's already passed, when enough distance has opened up to make it visible.
But hope emerges precisely from this darkness. Because we can't see ourselves clearly in the present, we're never finished, never fully knowable, never settled into a fixed identity. The opacity of now is what keeps the future open.
Edmund Husserl says: the present is an intersection of retention (accumulated past) and protention (anticipated future). The present isn't an instant, it's a thick zone where past and future meet. The present isn't just thick, it's dark, and that darkness is generative.

You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding. youtu.be/96jN2OCOfLs?si…

Looking at the stars and the deep night sky helps give me perspective from this “AI psychosis” as did this (that frankly blew my mind!) - that they are more dead people than alive! Almost 15 to 1. So the earth has carried more than 100 billion Homo sapiens. Our trajectories are so puny. bbc.com/news/magazine-…

Ocean Vuong always blows my mind