Interesting Ideas

Random things I find interesting.

If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it.
-Kevin Kelly

true masters feel the answer before they can explain the answer in words.

“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”

― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

The iconic example might be the “tech guy” at a small, non-technical firm. He “knows computers,” so as the company grew and evolved to have some mild IT needs, he became a programming dilettante out of necessity. In going from being a power user to being a developer, his skills exceeded his expectations, so he became confident in his limited,

Erik Dietrich • The Expert Beginner

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Most people don’t benefit much from chatbots because what people lack is not good answers so much as good questions. It’s no longer enough to curate your feed; you must now also curate your curiosity.

Gurwinder x.com

AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.

The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.

The Future of Software Development is Software Developers

Life is a constant dance between seeking comfort and being bored by it