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“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screame

The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard

“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now” - paraphrasing Annie Dillard

(A linked pair of writing dictums: “Don’t make things happen for no reason” and “Having made something happen, make it matter.”)

College isn't really about job training; college is about expanding your intellectual skills and building up your knowledge base to use them on; "furn

Intelligence is as intelligence does. If it helps you feel unique and special to sit there and tell yourself “AI can’t think!”, then go ahead. And sur

Finding a good coach - Graham Duncan Blog

When judging people for leadership positions, or for jobs that require strongly synthetic abilities, you should consider how well they are capable of

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that

boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes

You do not have the context to appreciate those works. That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand. The better you under

I can picture a life of trade offs, I can imagine the compromise and justifications for never committing to the work I love due to the responsibilitie

“There’s two different types of confidence. One that is based on the belief that you’re gonna be successful. You’re as much as you need to to do what

it is lucrative to know precisely what makes your audience happy to support you

Software Bonkers

What project would you be happy to devote 50 years of your life to, despite (or because of) it only being 10% done when you die? Ht @hannu @gwern and

Is there anything very different from what you are doing now that you thought about doing (or think about doing)?

How would I approach my work differently if focused on growth and engagement

Pay attention to people who are themselves voracious readers, and ask them what they read.

One of the first things I ask people is “what have you tried?” Would you be surprised to learn that most have tried nothing? - Paraphrased from a Twee

Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet « the jsomers.net blog

Paperstack

"and George began to wonder, in capital letters, just What Was Going On."

“High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means t

Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at prod

Scenius, or Communal Genius

"Once you label me, you negate me" - Søren Kierkegaard

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman

Alex Komoroske — Complex Adaptivity All The Way Down