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
You just need to use AI enough to get a feel for what you can use it for in your area of expertise. The most important thing to do is to get 10 or so hours of use with an advanced AI system. And to do that you just need to be a good-enough prompter to overcome the barriers that hold many AI users back. There are really two pathways to get started:
... See moreEthan Mollick • Getting Started With AI: Good Enough Prompting
Idle curiosity is just as easily attracted to junk info as to good info, so passive browsing in polluted waters quickly leads to intellectual obesity.
Gurwinder • How to Find Good Information
You must become a beginner.
—rainer maria rilke
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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Here’s the thing: Whatever you think of capitalism, the evidence is overwhelming: Social networks with a single proprietor have trouble with long-term survival, and those do survive have trouble with user-experience quality: see Enshittification.
ongoing by Tim Bray • Why Not Bluesky
Good info is that which changes you, either by making you think or act differently, or by changing the certainty with which you already think or act. Junk info is the opposite; you’re exactly the same after consuming it as before.
Gurwinder • How to Find Good Information
We make a big choice, like a house, job, spouse, or dog. We think about the thing itself: the look of the house, what the job pays, what a sweet dog. But a choice has so many cascading consequences. One big choice shapes a hundred little others. I try to imagine the ripple effects — the later details that make the day-to-day difference.
Then I think... See more
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one big choice shapes a hundred more | Derek Sivers
I often took notes that, at the time, seemed totally useless, but they later proved extremely useful. Sometimes 10 or 20 years elapsed before I could benefit from them. So I’ve learned never to assume that a book I’ve read can’t have future value for me. And that’s why I’m skeptical when others tell me that note-taking is irrelevant in their situat... See more
Ted Gioia • How I Take Notes
“Beginner = ignorant simplicity
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”