food for thought
If you give someone the ability to feed you, you’re giving them the ability to starve you.
Whether we’re doing it consciously or unconsciously, we’re manufacturing gut feelings in other people — our job is to manufacture better gut feelings.
When all these effects come together, you almost can’t tell if the streamer is human or AI-generated. They tap into our fascination with the unfamiliar and our paranoia of technology. As we pause in shock, they go viral. The timing of this is equally uncanny: humans are getting rich by pretending to act like robots at a time when robots are getting... See more
Michael Dean • Thank you for the roses
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner. By writing it down, we can sort years of research, data and analysis into an actual story, thereby identifying our main message and the influence of our work. This is not merely a philosophical observation; it is... See more
Nature • Writing Is Thinking
"Predicting rain doesn’t count, building the ark does.”
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
So lucky we can feel something that makes us so afraid