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Knowing What Motivates You
Have you ever heard the expression “That really pushes my buttons”? The notion that there is a particular set of things that uniquely motivates a person has always been a very powerful one with me. I don’t always have the best handle on what I want in life, but I have enough introspection to know where my buttons are. A b... See more
Have you ever heard the expression “That really pushes my buttons”? The notion that there is a particular set of things that uniquely motivates a person has always been a very powerful one with me. I don’t always have the best handle on what I want in life, but I have enough introspection to know where my buttons are. A b... See more
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think | Kalzumeus Software
I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I lo... See more
Sari Botton • This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
this is amazing and applies to helping someone learn anything.
People rarely mean the same thing when they say “work”, nor do they realize that they don’t mean the same thing. For people who are in that category called “employee” work means one thing and for people who own the business “work” means another thing. Although they look a lot alike in the outside, it is actually the invisible parts of “work” that m... See more
Ignoring AI’s potential is, well, ignorant
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
tweets like “consistently amazed by how useless chatgpt is” don’t help the cause.
these tweets are the “equivalent to, in the 1990s, dismissing the Internet as a “pornography and hacking machine. Yes, these are common use cases, but they’re the tip of a massive iceberg.”
the truth. “There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education… This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those ‘Garden Veggie Straws’, which feel like you're eating healthy until you look at the ingredients.”
Edgar D. Mitchell, an astronaut on Apollo 14 and the sixth man to walk on the moon, memorably put it like this:
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You wa... See more