Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
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Humans In The Loop
It’s important to consider both your body and your mind when it comes to rest. “Our minds and our bodies are connected, not just through physiology, but also through ways of communicating,” Conlon says. “I think that is so important for people to wrap their heads around and try to really accept: You can't really take care of one without taking care... See more
Rachel Wilkerson Miller • What Does It Mean to Really, Truly Rest?
Reasoning by analogy, or copying what others are doing, is sort of like being a cover band where you’re playing somebody else’s music. Whereas with first-principles thinking, you go back to the fundamental raw materials of music, which are the notes, and then you build an original song from scratch. That is first-principles thinking.
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
In a distracted world, the ability to consistently do deep work is a competitive advantage.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
Casey Rosengren • Hack Your Focus With Body Doubling
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
collabfund.com • Ideas That Changed My Life
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
It’s time we rebuild the rhythms of our organizations around the substantive bits instead of the knee-jerk ones. What happened to virtues like discipline, contemplation, care, and reflection in our work lives?
Brie Wolfson • Good Cogs and Their Tools
When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.