Dan Smith
@danpatricksmith
Dad of 3 awesome girls, and husband to an amazing woman. I'm enthusiastic about software development, AI/ML, gadgets, leadership, and economics.
Dan Smith
edgetechnology.substack.com
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
It’s bad luck to bring bananas on a fishing boat
-I had no idea about this. Found out my brother in law almost brought some bananas on a fishing trip (on a boat going out to sea), and apparently this is terrible luck and he was chastised.
Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Does anybody else really like to listen to audio recordings of dead philosophers and writers? Charles Bukowski, Alan Watts, David Foster Wallace, Anthony Bourdain. Their words are incredible, but there's something else about listening to them read it.
Living philosophers and writers are also interesting, of course. There’s an undeniable ‘something’
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Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
It’s not completely unbelievable that some as yet undiscovered physics anomaly could forever change society (anti-gravity, spacetime bending/warping, multiverse transitions).