Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
Writing is not about getting letters on a page. It’s not about getting done with text. It’s finding a clear and simple expression for what we feel, mean, and want to express
Seneca highlights the importance of “digesting” our reading so that we can make it our own.
So it is with the food which nourishes our higher nature, – we should see to it that whatever we have absorbed should not be allowed to remain unchanged, or it will be no part of us. We must digest it; otherwise it will merely enter the memory and not the... See more
3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
“Ideas that are hoarded help no one. Success follows generosity.”
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there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The act of focusing our attention on a single thing (or at least attempting to do so) reveals to us how distracted we’ve been all along.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
Digital News Report 2024
The 2024 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute analyzes shifts in news consumption, rising concerns about fake content, and the impact of video networks like YouTube and TikTok.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukFirst, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
we need a worldview that acknowledges that humans, for the foreseeable future, will always be the powerful party, deciding what needs to be done. We need a narrative that brings together two seemingly contradictory facts. The first is that we are part of the animal kingdom: our evolutionary ancestors were nonhumans; we care about other animals; we... See more