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1/ It's very interesting and useful I think to apply the MVP model of product development to personal development.
Perpetual motion starts with motion
Shorten your feedback loops
Iterate faster
Increase clockspeed (circle back faster)
fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices.
what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?
Love Pilgrimx.comAgency and
Profound. I'll have to return to this one.
It strikes me a higher-level decomposition of that Naval thread.
Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom.
phokarlssonx.com“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture.
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
When the first steam engines were introduced, the owners had a really hard time finding people to operate them who wouldn't get drunk in the middle of the day, fuck up, and wreck the machine.
Ben Landau-Taylorx.comTechnological change is only possible with societal (behavioral) change
To use databases, you need to be able to think about your data in a structured way. The people who could do that gained most of the leverage from using databases. The folks who made it easy for people to transition to databases (ERPs and Co) captured the rest.
AI systems are fundamentally scalable decision making engines. And data is the oil required to power it. If you want to properly leverage AI, you need to make sure you're fueling it with the best refined data.
Otherwise, you're no different than the drunk trying to reliably operate complex machinery. The only repeatable part of that is injury.
Why we [should] explore:
Fear - of people or extinction threats.
Greed - for resources and new economic opportunities.
Curiosity - to satiate our burning questions and discovering new knowledge.
What becomes of cultures that refuse to explore?
Names like Hunter, Cooper, Tanner become appealing as those professions become alien to us, more symbolic than real; after the collapse, our children will be named Recruiter, Codeninja, Webdev, out of the same abstract nostalgia
neoltitudex.comThis actually wouldn't surprise me
Our tendency to try to escape from the universe to find a nirvana that’s sort of quiet and peaceful and apart from all this hullabaloo is undermined completely by the realization of the nature of reality. You realize that the wisdom of the nature of reality leads you into compassion for the beings who are here, and the little bit of bliss that you... See more