Remind me Often
Now that I know that I will always live the experience of the books I am writing about, I will tell you (and the cheeky universe) that the title of the next one has to be: “ How to Handle Large, Unexpected Amounts of Money That Land in Your Bank Account, and the Fabulous Travel and Retirement Plans that Result from This Windfall .”
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laughed out loud ;-p
The A&R person is the first person to make contact with the band, and as such is the first person to promise them the moon. Who better to promise them the moon than an idealistic young turk who expects to be calling the shots in a few years, and who has had no previous experience with a big record company. Hell, he’s as naive as the band he’s... See more
The Problem with Music
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. —MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (1513)
Janna Levin • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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I am quite the fan of Professor Randolph Nesse’s theory of depression. Nesse and his colleagues speculate that depression could act as a biological constraint system that helps to minimise wasted effort and loss by forcing the individual to slow down, reassess, and potentially change strategies.”
I don’t recommend you seek to be depressed.
But to have Deep Rest™️—I think many of us could do with that!
Using LLM products today feels a lot like using early cars in the 1800s: clearly magical, clearly going to change the world, and really hard to drive.
The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made... See more
The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made... See more
The core idea at the end of that chapter was that anything that reduces fear of “the other” also reduces the idea that some people are fundamentally different or dangerous. Wars and hatred often stem from the notion that other people are so different that conflict becomes justifiable. But exposure to other cultures—whether through travel, food, or... See more
Glenn McDonald • Interview with Data Alchemist and Author Glenn McDonald
This!!!!!