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My most profound moment in college was when a professor mentioned that we were in school not to learn concepts, but to learn how to think critically. It was a major unblocker for me.
Prior to that moment, I'd been prioritizing getting good grades in my classes. It was the most important thing at the time. The clearest object I had in front of me.
Now
I generally believe that traditional conferences are Dead Man Walking
Panels are boring, most keynote speakers use dated material, and on-stage interviews don't pack the punch that they used to
So there is a good opportunity to re-imagine the 500+ in-person gathering industry, but... See more
Nick Gray / How to Make Friendsx.comPodcasts are more accessible and multimodal
First, we must gather information, and collect our puzzle pieces. Then we must assemble the edges, building the container for our work. In this way, action is the precursor to creativity. Not the other way around.
We must act our way into creativity, not think our way in.
The first, and most obvious thing, is that they are visual. If I was going to move a piece on a map then I could point to where it was and where it needed to go. Navigation was visual but that was normal. Except, I realised it wasn’t. When people stopped me in their cars to find their way to the nearest petrol station — this was 2004 and GPS was... See more
medium.com • On Being Lost
Charting the High Frontier of Space | Ed Lu
youtu.beWhy 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?
The reason to avoid lying is that the brain is not type safe. Lying to others and lying to yourself are the same motion.
RomeoStevensx.comIt's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
TracingWoodgrainstwitter.comMost people think of secrets as Easter eggs. They assume that if a secret is important, it’s necessarily going to be hard to find. The best ideas can come from things that are so well-known that they aren’t well-seen.