George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"

Evolve the idea of what a home is. Elio motors is offering a small 84MPG vehicle for $6,800. 30 year old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers maintain a high resale value to this very day. Why are all mobile homes so huge? How much money do people spend on rent, leases, mortgages, and buying homes? I'm sure college students would love a compact mobile home vehicle. Developing countries would likely eat such a thing up. The CEO of Zappos lives in a trailer park of Airstream trailers and Tumbleweed tiny mobile houses with a shared kitchen, living room and other common areas designed to encourage a true neighborhood / community. Or just consider a house as infrastructure. Real estate is assumed to be limited, but that's mostly the result of nimbyism and the gaming of developments sold off on the real estate market as "investments". The whole trend of gentrification will likely play out in less expensive regions of North America and developing countries, and presumably there will be large dense affordable housing somewhere someday and these areas tend to be fertile for creative businesses and cultural experimentation. New York is long stagnate, and it's amazing how much San Fransisco suffers from real estate leaching off of the working population and tech economy. A home isn't limited to being a house. [this video]

This is an extremely difficult question that I've been grappling with myself. My first strategy is to create writings that can't be summarized. I try to make essays that are dripping with idiosyncrasy. I can't win in an information war, but I can stay competitive for ~10 years in a creative clash: [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link] [4] [link] [5] [link] I myself draw lots of my inspiration from my "sages of style", in the same way that AIs will try to replicate my voice. None of these great thinkers can be summarized or replicated in any meaningful way: [6] David Foster Wallace: [link] [7] George Carlin: [this video] [8] Derek Sivers: [link] [9] John Green: [link] [10] Roman Mars: [link] [11] Alan Kay: [link] [12] Alan Watts: [link] [13] Richard Feynman: [link] [14] Raymond Smullyan: [link] But style only takes you so far. My second strategy is to socialize IRL. This year, I'm starting a tech conference called "Outland" to foster community in an age where community might be all that matters. [15] [link]

>It can be argued that humans actually hate forgetting things I agree with you, I don't even think that needs to be argued, we without a doubt hate forgetting things, but we also hate eating our vegetables. We do hate a lot of things we probably shouldn't. We are perpetual hoarders, as a species we have the bad habit that we're not very grateful for the problems we don't have as a consequence of things we don't keep. We're not very good thinking in terms of absence. That's why Marie Kondo sold a ton of books and got a great Netflix deal simply by teaching people how to throw stuff into the garbage. Civilization is great at record keeping but not doing too well on the social bonding front, or in the words of George Carlin: [this video]