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
“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” There is no other way to get anywhere.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.
nesslabs.com • Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books
Over the course of a few short years, a technological revolution shook the world. New businesses rose and fell, fortunes were made and lost, the practice of reporting the news was reinvented, and the relationship between leaders and the public was thoroughly transformed, for better and for worse. The years were 1912 to 1927 and the technological
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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
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