Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
Exaggerations happen. Nostalgia’s tyranny enslaves the unguarded and turns wishful thinkers into romantics.
Corey Smith • A Still Life of Hope
The impulse to seek new information and experiences and explore novel possibilities is a basic human attribute.
Francesca Gino • The Business Case for Curiosity
Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
If AI starts to generate intelligence by itself, there’s no guarantee that it will be human-like. Rather than humans teaching machines to think like humans, machines might teach humans new ways of thinking.
Will Douglas Heaven • AI is learning how to create itself
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.uk“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already.”
— Tolstoy
— Tolstoy
Brain Food: Necessary Virtues
Thesis statements ruin the surprise every time. In storytelling, our job is to describe action, dialogue, and thought. It is never our job to summarize these things.