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#348 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking

Modern Wisdom

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Why Do People Get Scared of the Dark?

There are these values that have to live in a dialectical relationship, but we will forget that and focus on one of them. Motivated reasoning is tricky; there's so many reasons for it. Sometimes I want to be certain just because I'm fucking scared to have to say I have no idea what's going on about super consequential stuff. When you recognize how much of reality is unknown and actually unknowable, there is no way through well with grace where you don't project nastiness into dark spaces.

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