Matt M
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Matt M
"I must do great things that will be done by no other" -The Heroic Oath by Emily Dickinson
The illusion of productivity plays a significant role too. As long as you’re working on something, you feel productive. Jumping from project to project gives you a constant stream of “new project energy,” which can feel more invigorating than the grind of finishing a single project.
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
This phenomenon is closely related to Parkinson’s Law, which states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” In personal projects, the available time is often infinite, leading to endless expansion
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
⏳ Time-Box My Projects : I’ll give myself a deadline. It doesn’t have to be short, but it should be finite. Having an end date creates urgency and helps me prevent endless feature creep.
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
Frank kings had rule over the other free men through detaining a magical power called Mund. That’s one point : Roman Emperors at least in the early times got power through law (though Augustus was divinised). Franks got theirs through intangible magic ; blood here is naturally important whereas adoption there was enough legally.
r/AskHistorians - Reddit
Mostly, I was left with a sense of emptiness – and deep regret about my own ignorance. By failing to have meaningful conversations with my dad about his grandparents, I’d allowed a vital link to my past to be lost forever. Maybe things could have gone differently...
History is for the living
This is not a problem that is limited to Facebook or even social media, as figuring out how to make automated systems responsive to our values, rather than blindly following a reasonable objective function, is a pervasive question, often referred to as value alignment. It underlies questions about whether optimizing for GDP and stock price is actually good for society and has become even more critical as AI-driven systems create myriad optimization opportunities that all have the potential to go wrong (e.g. balancing safety vs. efficiency of self-driving cars, cost vs. health benefit for managing health resources, worker productivity vs. well-being for the gig economy).
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.
Surface Detail Quotes by Iain M. Banks
Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail, describing Auppi’s death. The quintessential materialist philosophy of The Culture summed up.