the shift
the perpetual quest for efficiency is a machine’s role; to pursue efficiency at all cost is to become a machine.
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Shane Parrish • Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Intellectual property rights are sometimes hailed as the mother of creativity and invention. However, Marshall Brain points out that many of the finest examples of human creativity—from scientific discoveries to creation of literature, art, music and design—were motivated not by a desire for profit but by other human emotions, such as curiosity,
... See moreMax Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
We invented fire, repeatedly messed up, and then invented the fire extinguisher, fire exit, fire alarm and fire department
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
Very often, we’re not consciously aware of why we want what we want. Conducting a “root cause analysis” is a useful way to discover the motivations behind our desires. The Five-Fold Why is a technique to help you discover what you actually want. Instead of taking your desires at face value, examining the root cause of what you want can help you
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