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
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Nick Maggiullix.comThe original social network, email, is now into its sixth decade of vigorous life. It ain’t perfect but it is essential, and not in any serious danger.
The single crucial difference between email and all those other networks — maybe the only significant difference — is that nobody owns or controls it. If you have a deployment that can speak the
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How do I stop overthinking
Cartoon by Jake Giddens
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
Descartes
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)
Mario Sergio Cortella • O Melhor Do Cortella
Krishnamurti didn’t see intelligent machines as some strange, rival species ready to replace us. To him, machines were just an extension of the human mind — a brain built in our own image, with human and artificial thought as mirror reflections. When you think about it, AI developers aren’t pulling ideas out of thin air; they’re crafting AI based
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As coisas têm que ser feitas na nossa própria velocidade, no nosso próprio ritmo.
it is the duty of the historian to show the differences between the immediate and long-range implications of technological developments.