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
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“We’re at a moment in history when we need to rebuild our confidence in the capabilities of humans to reason wisely, to make collective decisions,” Vallor tells me. “We’re not going to deal with the climate emergency or the fracturing of the foundations of democracy unless we can reassert a confidence in human thinking and judgment. And everything... See more
Philip Ball • AI Is the Black Mirror
Time’s gift is experience. Experience sharpens the craft. It acts as a prediction machine, and a pattern recognizer. It cuts through the extraneous. It moves decisively. It supercharges intuition. It’s a long-range antennae for spotting opportunity and potential. It broadens the intellectual and emotional palette from which to draw from. It... See more
The real trouble, according to the leading techno-optimist Clay Shirky, wasn't information overload, but "filter failure". We needed – and we'd eventually get – more sophisticated ways to filter the wheat from the online chaff. And then we'd no longer feel overwhelmed.
Oliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
The data informs and influences us, but we choose based on the totality of our experience
This quote means so much to me. It makes me remember that we’re never old enough to learn; actually, as we grow older, we realize we know much less than we thought.