David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
Brian Klaas • The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
Agent Of Happiness - Official UK Trailer
youtube.comMost of us have a hard limit on the number of focused sessions we can do each day.
Chris Guillebeau • Executive Functioning and the Limits of Hyperfocus
After the forest expands, we will become deeply sceptical of one another’s realness . Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you’ll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine? Is there a being on the other end of this web interface I can form a relationship... See more
Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
security can evaporate the moment we stop believing in it.
Kening Zhu • feeling safe in creative work & business — kening zhu
On Idea Hoarding
otherlife.co
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.
What does it tell us about progress if the most influential technological innovation of the century is clearly destroying lives on a massive scale?