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Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

this is amazing and applies to helping someone learn anything.

Second, most of the folks making the most noise in a technological bubble either i) do not read history, ii) need to make it seem like their technology is world changing and the change is closer than anyone can ever imagine (because otherwise investors would not be willing to hand over their cash) ... or iii) blindly believe the folks who are

Commoncog • Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI

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I have a theory about nostalgia : It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget about all the things you worried about that never came true. So life appears better in the past because in hindsight there wasn’t as much to worry about as you were actually worrying about at the... See more

Morgan Housel • A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About

I feel a wave of dystopia whenever I confront the intellectual inconsistency of highly educated people.

37 years, 37 realisations.

“It’s not the thing it’s your relationship with it”

But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem... See more

Farrah @Substack • Are you ready to put yourself 'out there'?

Many people who lack action are naive and like to sit and wait for things to happen naturally. They naively think that others will care about their affairs. In actual fact, other than yourself, others will not be very interested in them. People are only interested in their own things.

M. Tan • The 38 Letters From J.D. Rockefeller to His Son