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Don't Fall Into the Trap of Taking the Wrong Lessons from Others' Success
Sarah Tavelopen.substack.com
Many such cases
Half a century before Goethe devised his theory of color and emotion, Nightingale notes the invigoration produced by warm, bright colors and the wearying effects of long hours spent looking at deep, cool shades as she offers her remedy for nervous prostration and burnout
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
In response to a tweet saying: out brains forget things for a reason
2nd brain is an attempt to evolve past that. Should we?
An AI assistant shouldn't have these constraints, but even those are optimized for memory.
Amazing things happened when geolocation was democratized. What does the future hold when that happens with intelligence?
Excerpt: “When truly transformative technology becomes accessible, it's hard to imagine how things will change - only that they absolutely will. The release of GPS to consumers was a similar moment - it would have been hard to predict Uber, Doordash and the creation of the gig economy from that final piece being unlocked: accurate location finding and routing anywhere in the world.“
The DuPont Company's Chart Room
hagley.org
It is easy to take for granted the abundance of organized information we now have access to on demand.
DuPont created this room in 1919 and didn't share details about how they used it in public until 1950.
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching a... See more
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching a... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
It’s about how we can naturally contextualize information that grows exponentially, how we can create tools that enable us easily organize the information we collected into meaningful structures, how we can provide a space for people to think and imagine more effectively, how we can bridge the gap between thinking and creating, how we can encourage... See more
Alan Chan • My Vision: A New City
There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one sid... See more
Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design
this morning i heard @OortCloudAtlas reframe sadness in a way that loosened a knot i didn't know i had in my chest. he said,
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened
it's rly a wish… Show more
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened”
sadness is one of our most beautiful treasures because it's our compassionate heart expressing itself