Will Schoder

"A really uncompressed person, usually a hiker, a ski bum, a Buddhist monk, you know, the world is totally open to them." ~@willschoder

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People whose primary vibe is "I and my tribe are domain-expertise-endowed professionals, the people I criticize and mock are amateurs, and you should shut up" are really really uncool, and people should recognize the pattern and immediately unfollow anyone who exhibits it.

@vgr The core flaw of the Marshmallow Experiment

Does this make happiness the ultimate good? No. But the argument here is that people make a big mistake when they discount happiness because it isn't the ultimate good. A good definition of happiness is very eudaimonic as well.

There is a definition of happiness that 1) makes sense, 2) escapes the hedonic adaptation problem, 3) isn't childlike or naive, and 4) is practical & deeply connected to things you care about. It is in this video.

The primary philosophical objections to happiness come down to bad definitions. Once you fix the definition, the "excellence only" people join too: youtube.com/watch?v=5f0ilA…

@nateliason Great piece. Sometimes I think what's at fault is equating "being entertained" with true wholehearted engagement (a word unfortunately snapped up by big data). True flow & engagement blows "not being bored" out of the water, but people have forgotten the distinction.

But it's not all bleak. Screens are a tool like any other, and we can also use them to re-gain and sharpen our internal locus of entertainment. More here: blog.nateliason.com/p/the-locus-of…

The locus of entertainment: or why I might give my daughter an iPad The problem with the popularization of phones, TVs, computers, is not the screens themselves, it's the type of entertainment they enable. We've shifted from...

There’s this idea that you can either be an equanimous pushover or have a backbone, but equanimity is the backbone

@jasonzhao Yea the guy who wrote this got a $5 mil grant, in part, to get more cross-cultural studies going.

@willschoder Really powerful thought experiment — anthropological studies of happiness across vastly different cultures might help introduce enough variation to draw better conclusions

My favorite thought experiment in philosophy (that I’ve read). From Dan Haybron’s The Pursuit of Unhappiness:

@RoninMM8 @nateliason The writer of this passage is optimistic about the literature getting better despite him destroying it here. But yes, agreed—lots of problems.

Haven’t seen the first one? Do ya self a favor: youtu.be/5f0ilA4tjJ0

And yes this tweet marks my coming back to making videos/the series.

@willschoder ?

@Infinite_Her_ Yea, I'd consider it🙂

@willschoder idk if u use this space anymore. Worth a try tho. Love ur work so much. If u start making videos again, wud u consider making another one on the final season of Bojack pls

@marcorubio @SenRickScott Please protect innovation & freedom by supporting the Wyden/Lummis/Toomey amendment to the infrastructure bill. The Portman/Warner/Sinema amendment is a disaster for one the most innovative sectors of our economy.