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Larry Winget on integrity:

“Every time you’re tempted to slack off or do or be a little less than you could, remember that you are a person of integrity who lives by the simple creed: do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.”

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Patrick OShaughnessy

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People don’t belong on pedestals

You will most likely meet your founder/investor/operator idols at some point in the fundraising process. If you’re anything like me, you will worry intensely about not making a fool of yourself. It will probably go ok, but not as amazing or illuminating as you’d hoped. You might leave and feel a deep sense of... See more

Molly Mielke • the earnest ambitious kid's guide to investors

But while AI RAG systems retrieve and process information through strict computational rules, our human "cultural RAG" draws not just from data points but from lived experience, embodied knowledge, and cultural context. Most importantly, we can dynamically adjust how we access and apply this knowledge based on subtle contextual cues that AI systems... See more

HALTUNG: On Developing Cultural Intelligence in the Age of AI

The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological incon...

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understanding the left

“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.”

-Brian Eno.

If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.

Worldbuilding