Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought. https://t.co/Iv2H4mTAk3
One of the most effective ways of becoming a smarter human being is learning facts that trigger negative emotions.
It will teach you that your emotions are the primary cause of issues with knowledge and logic.
When you can do something smart that feels bad, you're smart.
Evan LaPointex.comNothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Not everything that counts can be counted” - Einstein
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” — Mark Manson
Quotes and Psychology
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”
apocryphal wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde.
May have been said by Psychologist Robert Michels