provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
there are 9,000 problems in life that have the solution "know more local people" and people will do literally anything except spend time on that
Simon Sarristwitter.comPeople worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
sari azout • Tweet
“It’s good to have people in your life who you don’t want to disappoint.” – Warren Buffett
Morgan Housel • Smart Things Smart People Said
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
A quote from The Utopia of Rules
“Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.”
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Literacy as Deviance
The document argues that literacy is a deviation from our natural cognitive abilities, and as technology progresses, the need for traditional literacy skills diminishes.
nysgs.orgHow are we to prepare the young, whom we already scarcely know, for a future we cannot imagine, from a past that has been swept away?
what is ine idea you’d defend like this?
“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more
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