Eric Jorgensen

philosophically robust approach to optimism uh and over a very long time horizon and it also will make you very proud to be a human and proud to be an american and proud to be a part of continuing to advance like our understanding of the universe

philosophically robust approach to optimism uh and over a very long time horizon and it also will make you very proud to be a human and proud to be an american and proud to be a part of continuing to advance like our understanding of the universe

I just saw a tweet from Naval yesterday in response to someone who was sort of asking about that. Like, hey, I'm rich and I'm successful, but I'm miserable and I don't feel like I have a purpose or meaning to my life. And Naval's tweet was like, kids, God, mission. Choose one or more than one, but the meaning of life is the meaning that you give it.

I just saw a tweet from Naval yesterday in response to someone who was sort of asking about that. Like, hey, I'm rich and I'm successful, but I'm miserable and I don't feel like I have a purpose or meaning to my life. And Naval's tweet was like, kids, God, mission. Choose one or more than one, but the meaning of life is the meaning that you give it.

And we as a society, I think the numbers of devout believers in any religion, it just has a trend, seem to be going down, at least in America. That's, I think, one source of multi-generational thinking. I think another is family and specifically the family multi-generational structure, maybe even living together or very near multiple generations of family.

And we as a society, I think the numbers of devout believers in any religion, it just has a trend, seem to be going down, at least in America. That's, I think, one source of multi-generational thinking. I think another is family and specifically the family multi-generational structure, maybe even living together or very near multiple generations of family.

probably particularly if they overlap and you have kids younger, like that, that trend has been, we've had the reverse of that trend recently, but I think that's easier to have this sort of, um, feel a little more insular. The other thing is I think there's, um, a lot of selection around the media.

probably particularly if they overlap and you have kids younger, like that, that trend has been, we've had the reverse of that trend recently, but I think that's easier to have this sort of, um, feel a little more insular. The other thing is I think there's, um, a lot of selection around the media.

Like I, I really wish like Marshall McLuhan was still alive and to get like his take on social media, like how extreme this has gotten just like, Not even – every new medium of sort of media like kicks off a new panic of like nobody's reading books anymore. Now they're all reading newspapers.

Like I, I really wish like Marshall McLuhan was still alive and to get like his take on social media, like how extreme this has gotten just like, Not even – every new medium of sort of media like kicks off a new panic of like nobody's reading books anymore. Now they're all reading newspapers.

Like there was a legitimate panic about that when newspapers became like the predominant technology of the day. And so there's some extent to which like there's always alarm about it. But I do – there is some real – the combination of –

Like there was a legitimate panic about that when newspapers became like the predominant technology of the day. And so there's some extent to which like there's always alarm about it. But I do – there is some real – the combination of –

our natural sort of psychological bias towards the negative with really, really high turnover, social media, um, and like very just of the moment feeds creates this really both a negativity and sort of a focus on the moment that pulls you out of that, the lens that we've been talking about, both the historical and the, you know, what are we contributing to over multiple generations that is

our natural sort of psychological bias towards the negative with really, really high turnover, social media, um, and like very just of the moment feeds creates this really both a negativity and sort of a focus on the moment that pulls you out of that, the lens that we've been talking about, both the historical and the, you know, what are we contributing to over multiple generations that is

that gives my life and my work day to day meaning, you know, how do you see yourself in the broader lens of what you're contributing to?

that gives my life and my work day to day meaning, you know, how do you see yourself in the broader lens of what you're contributing to?

I think we get a lot of joy out of service and being useful in our communities and however you want to define community and however you want to define useful, but trying to hide from that fact or pursue satisfaction in ways that are not, you know, utility and community are,

I think we get a lot of joy out of service and being useful in our communities and however you want to define community and however you want to define useful, but trying to hide from that fact or pursue satisfaction in ways that are not, you know, utility and community are,

not well proven in history and, you know, might prove to just be detours or distractions along your way to finding something satisfying.

not well proven in history and, you know, might prove to just be detours or distractions along your way to finding something satisfying.