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
People do care about privacy, but the sacrifices we make for privacy must come at a low enough cost that we will make them.
Fred Wilson • Do People Care About Privacy? - AVC
This isn’t like the early days of steamships or aviation, where bigger and better engines led to larger vehicles that could go longer distances and carry more people. The “race” metaphor journalists love doesn’t really fit either.
Today, companies like AI can spend billions on model training and chips, and find their designs copied within weeks – or... See more
Today, companies like AI can spend billions on model training and chips, and find their designs copied within weeks – or... See more
Access Denied
Although active hunting is generally a better use of time than passive fishing, some fishing is needed in order to know what to hunt for. In such cases, it’s best to fish in fresh and bountiful waters, free of junk and full of treasure. The ideal fishing waters should expose you to a lot of useful info within a given duration of fishing, with... See more
Gurwinder • How to Find Good Information
Aprendizado, quando é conduzido com autonomia e vontade, é uma das principais fontes de motivação e bem-estar psicológico da espécie humana.
Conrado Schlochauer • Lifelong Learners – O Poder Do Aprendizado Contínuo
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.