Josh Bowen
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Josh Bowen
introducing "the fourth place" & why "third places" have fallen short on their promise
Patricia Mouthesfcommons.substack.com
Ultimately you'll have to determine the info-diet that works for you. But if you insist on endlessly consuming whatever the web serves you, know that this banquet culminates in a bitter dessert: at the end of your life, when you're weighing your regrets, you probably won’t say “Man, I wish I’d spent more time browsing the web.”
gurwinder.substack.com • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Opinion | The Essential Skills for Being Human
nytimes.com
“Luck never sent a few hundred emails, wrote an autoresponder, handled a contract negotiation, etc, but both people who do these things and people who don’t do these things attribute a good deal of their outcomes to it.”
-Patrick McKenzie
The only experts who still possess authority are blue collar ones. The public still wants to hire the best plumber or car mechanic or hair stylist, and will pay more if these workers have established a reputation for expertise. But the expertise of white collar professionals is derided at every turn
If we want to understand what AIs are going to look like, I think the proto AI that we have are corporations. Corporations are sort of these funny little beasts. They’re not small. I guess they’re not little beasts, but they’re strange. It takes special training to have humans be able to fit within them. They’re made out of humans mostly but... See more
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
we'll need a place to get grounded when AI agents take over. a place we can go to for pure humanity. getting grounded with a sea of human thoughts and ideas will feel like a vacation.