Interestingness
“It’s not about making yourself interesting. It’s about making the world interesting.” Russell Davies
Interestingness
“If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself, your conclusions will not be predictable.” – Kevin Kelly
Morgan Housel • Smart Things I’ve Read Lately
I keep coming back to this wonderfully insightful point by the wonderfully insightful Dieter Bohn about interface design and grammar.
To be clear, concluding in brief: there is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires.
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is a good as a feast— or better.
Arranging this situation is left as an... See more
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is a good as a feast— or better.
Arranging this situation is left as an... See more
Ministry for The Future - Kim Stanley Robinson.
A weekend’s work to turn a podcast into a chatbot…the opportunities that are just beginning to emerge make my brain hurt. In the best possible way…
Paul Valéry, the twentieth-century French philosopher, said, “Un fait mal observé est plus pernicieux qu’un mauvais raisonnement.” (A fact poorly observed is more treacherous than faulty reasoning
This shift came because of what Nintendo called its “blue ocean” strategy. The idea was that the increasing technological complexity of games was actually making them less appealing to many consumers. We’d come a long way from the simplicity of making Mario run and jump in the original Super Mario Bros . Just looking at a GameCube controller could... See more