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Bella K 10/31/24 Bella K 10/31/24

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Living in Flow Recently, I came across a diagram illustrating Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s flow state theory, and it deeply resonated with me. This simple visual seemed to mirror my own life journey, from childhood to the complexities of ad

Bella K 8/5/24 Bella K 8/5/24

Flow-State Cities

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Well-Roundedness Growing up, my parents overly emphasized this idea of being a “well-rounded person.” From the age of four onward, they drilled into me that to live a full life, you had to focus on five things: Do well in school (mo

Bella K 7/29/24 Bella K 7/29/24

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[WIP] I attended a fascinating discussion hosted by Pace Capital that compared Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis with Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness. It is this premise which attracts those with a certain

Bella K 7/15/24 Bella K 7/15/24

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Social Incentives to Dig Your Heels In: Devolving into nothing more than big bank, big Pharma, we didn’t cover it After watching last night's debate, a fundamental question emerged: What are the true origins of American identity, and w

Bella K 7/8/24 Bella K 7/8/24

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I really liked this tweet I saw recently by Chris Paik from Pace Capital "Music is a compression algorithm. Singsong and the brain's hardwired ability to easily recall melody and lyrics has allowed large amounts of data to be seamless

Bella K 6/24/24 Bella K 6/24/24

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Homo - Techno I was listening to this Lex Fridman interview podcast featuring Grimes when a concept she introduced struck me: the idea of "homo techno." Grimes posits that due to our symbiotic relationship with computers, humans have s

Bella K 6/17/24 Bella K 6/17/24

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Anomalies: The Overlooked Underlooked Catalysts of Innovation I have been obsessed with Robert Greene lately - loved this quote from his book Mastery: "We routinely look for patterns in the world that confirm the paradigms we already

Bella K 6/10/24 Bella K 6/10/24

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Russian Futurism and Today’s Tech Revolution For the past several months I have been attending a Slavic Book Club at McNally Jackson in Brooklyn, New York. In the last session I learned about a movement that arose in the early 20th centu

Bella K 6/3/24 Bella K 6/3/24

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Role of Rituals and Ceremonies in a Modern Secular Society Scrolling through my social media feeds, we are all inundated with wedding proposals, engagement rings, bachelorette parties. The Ambani’s 600M wedding with performances fr

Bella K 5/27/24 Bella K 5/27/24

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Middlemen in a Digital Age I am apartment hunting in New York City for the first time, and an interesting experience. When I moved into my current place, my roommates had already done all the legwork, so I just signed the lease. Now,

Bella K 5/20/24 Bella K 5/20/24

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