provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell, “A childish letter” for Jewish World Review (1998)
"On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions".
Thomas Sowell
Edison did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.
Why is life expectancy so long in Hong Kong? Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 84.23 years, more than five years longer than the US and the highest in the world. Hong Kong is not that wealthy (median household income is $38,000 USD); it’s somewhat polluted; people don’t obviously eat what seems like a healthy diet; and they don’t seem to exercise a g... See more
Tyler Cowen • Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION
You can go out on the internet, and you can find your audience. And you can build a business, and create a product, and build wealth, and make people happy just uniquely expressing yourself through the internet.
Naval Ravikant • The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
these tools benefit the highly skilled more than the less skilled .
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
referring to AI
I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
via Sasha Chapin