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
technology and business development
Walled gardens
From xkcd’s ”Instagram” webcomic. Reminds me of how, when you’re not paying for the service, it is subject to disappear or close without previous notice — it also reminds me of “walled gardens”, term used in the context of technology to describe a platform that is not easily extensible or open.
Since your dopamine pathways can't distinguish between useful and useless info, consuming junk info gives you the satisfaction of feeling like you're learning—it offers you the sensation of mental nourishment—even though all you're really doing is shoving virtual popcorn into your skull.
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Read a lot of high-quality stuff on a certain topic or time period. Recognize connections, reinforce them, prioritize retention over growth. Then, and only then, once your core is established, expand outward.
It’s like constructing a map instead of dotting a bunch of dots.
Not Boring • Read More Books
Turn your worries into a checklist
Pick one or two you can commit to solving by end of the day. If you've jotted down some things that can't easily be solved, designate some 'worry time' for the day. This is a cognitive behavioural therapy tec....
https://dsta.sh/9hcTVAjKQ9yrBy1J8
Pick one or two you can commit to solving by end of the day. If you've jotted down some things that can't easily be solved, designate some 'worry time' for the day. This is a cognitive behavioural therapy tec....
https://dsta.sh/9hcTVAjKQ9yrBy1J8
Turn your worries into a checklist
Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public.
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without... See more
This has highly deleterious consequences for the democratic process. Social media intensify this kind of communication without... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
It’s not that Krishnamurti saw the mind as anything close to a computer. While a computational functionalist might argue that building a mind is as simple as building a machine, Krishnamurti believed our minds are so much more. But he worried we were selling ourselves short, letting our minds get stuck in mechanical routines like memory and
... See moreBig Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Será que a inteligência artificial, através dos LLMs, começou de fato a replicar, ainda que minimamente, a complexidade da mente humana, ou será que a mente humana é que vem se tornando, aos poucos, mais similar à mente das máquinas?
If you frame the talk as a journey, the biggest decisions are figuring out where to start and where to end. To find the right place to start, consider what people in the audience already know about your subject—and how much they care about it. If you assume they have more knowledge or interest than they do, or if you start using jargon or get too
... See moreHarvard Business Review • Frame Your Story
O principal pecado capital, portanto, é o da covardia, do pânico em relação ao que deve ser feito, ao que se precisa enfrentar, ao que se precisa viver. Isso envelhece bastante. A preguiça envelhece. → (Vivemos mais! Vivemos bem? P. 13)
