Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
Ideas have a bad reputation. They're a dime a dozen. They're worthless unless implemented.
prog21.dadgum.com • Get Good at Idea Generation
Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.
Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
In fact, decisions are rarely 100 percent right or wrong. Life isn’t like that. Life is like poker, a game of incomplete information – since you never know what cards the other players are holding – and luck. Our decision-making is like poker players’ bets. We bet on future outcomes based on what we believe is most likely to occur.
blinkist.com • Thinking in Bets Overview
“Emotional intelligence is a set of personal skills we learn in life. It’s a combination of self-awareness, managing your emotions well, empathy, tuning into other people, and putting that all together to have harmonious or effective relationships.”
This skill set has become even more essential as workplaces become increasingly decentralized,
... See moreDonna Wiggs • Daniel Goleman: Why Emotional Intelligence May Be the Number One Indicator of Organizational Success
“Disbelief in one’s capabilities,” writes the psychologist Albert Bandura, “creates its own behavioral validation.”
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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A descrença em nossas próprias capacidades cria sua própria validação comportamental. Falando em português claro, conforme o meu entendimento em relação ao que o autor está dizendo, se acreditarmos que “podemos fazer”, acabamos de fato conseguindo fazer. E se acreditarmos no contrário, que não podemos fazer, nós mesmos nos impediremos de conseguir fazer de fato.
Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual decline of services as they prioritize value extraction over value creation for users, a process he views as an inevitable consequence of platform capitalism.
subvert.fm • Subvert
Niantic’s data collection scale through Pokémon Go is immense, leveraging the game’s massive player base to gather an unprecedented amount of geospatial information. The company has processed over 30 billion images from players worldwide, creating a vast dataset that forms the foundation of their Large Geospatial Model (LGM). This extensive... See more
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AI chronicles and data privacy
A coleta de dados de geo-localização feita pela Niantic, desenvolvedora do Pokémon Go, é, para mim, um exemplo de como somos o produto (neste caso, nossa localização em tempo real em um dado instante é o produto), e de como a privacidade de dados e dos seres humanos parece estar relegada a um segundo plano aqui.
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb