David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
The scientific virtues are:
- Stupidity
- Arrogance
- Laziness
- Carefreeness
- Beauty
- Rebellion
- Humor
The Scientific Virtues
AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards
Anu Atluru • Make Something Heavy.
Mastery is fine, but you must retain the ability to think like a beginner.
Austin Kleon • Questions without answers
So why not just collect all of the ideas in Sublime, to avoid the need for having them go “viral” and then eventually link that idea to the “more complete” blog or whatever I end up writing.
Conclusions: Drumming is a complex composite intervention with the potential to modulate specific neuroendocrine and neuroimmune parameters in a direction opposite to that expected with the classic stress response.
Composite effects of group drumming music therapy on modulation of neuroendocrine-immune parameters in normal subjects - PubMed (nih.go
... See moreBring on the phone free school legislation. You wouldn’t let your kid smoke cigarettes in your class, so why are we letting them consume electronic brain cocaine? Make it state-wide, make it nation-wide.
Gilbert Schuerch • My School Banned Phones for the Year. Here's What Happened
Electronics evolved rapidly without any help before. Why can't we pull it again?
These technological breakthroughs happened in a context of cheap energy. Unless we have a "unicorn tech" (nuclear fusion for example) giving us cheaper energy than 1960's oil, we will never again see these days of extraordinarily cheap energy.
Without cheap energy, we... See more
These technological breakthroughs happened in a context of cheap energy. Unless we have a "unicorn tech" (nuclear fusion for example) giving us cheaper energy than 1960's oil, we will never again see these days of extraordinarily cheap energy.
Without cheap energy, we... See more