David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
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AI can make it easier to pass tests but it doesn’t do anything about the actual, magical transformation of learning. The AI student is forever a tenant, never an owner, of their curiosity.
Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid
The Importance of Inconvenience
youtube.comThe “convenience” that tech invites replaced what people/ social connections used to do. You can play a video game with someone online on the other side of the world - but now you miss the casual whateverness of your co-player sitting next to you on the couch. Or, hell, the person sitting on the other side of the Scrabble/ Chess board
Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.”
Austin Kleon • Give Yourself What You Needed Then and Give Your Kids What They Need Now
But that’s not why you should write.
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live.
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live.
James Somers • More People Should Write
As soon as you start asking questions, you have an obligation to listen to the answers.
Ted Gioia • How to Read Plato
Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when... See more
freddiedeboer.substack.com • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software . Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We... See more
Free Software Foundation • What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
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