Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- Learning online skills isn't a straight line up. It's a zigzag across a continent of Google links.
from Fuck the 10,000 Hours Idea | Cyber Patterns by Jason Levin
There is a lonely absurdity in the idea of racing against the clock at the end of time,
from Saving Time by Jenny Odell
This feels painfully right
- The ideas aren’t all gold, but they seem to find the people who want them, and they start to give life.
from Resistance and Embracing Your Nature by Nicholas Goodey
Ideas don’t need to be perfect. The ones that are the best find their audience. But only when shared.
- Kindness isn’t always easy or obvious, because the urgent race to the bottom, to easily measured metrics and to scarcity, can distract us. But bending the arc toward justice, toward dignity and toward connection is our best way forward.
from Three types of kindness by Seth Godin
Engineering Generosity and Abundant Systems
Seth has a lot of good ideas on this. Should tie in to his ideas more.
- But the thing is, more and more of life is structured like a game. Increasingly, corporations, institutions, governments have begun to understand how powerful this way of transforming and shaping our agency, our behavior is. And so social media is structured like a game. Our school and work lives are structured around points, ratings, grades, metri... See more
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
- Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
from Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by Stewart Brand
both forms needed in order to integrate noise and then determine signal over time.
- Despite my tendency to procrastinate, I’ve gotten (mostly) good at not being late for things because I spend a lot of my energy trying to not let other people down.
from TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
How much energy is lost for the sake of trying to maintain some level of “adulting”?
Second, being wrong hurts us more than being right feels good. We know from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on loss aversion, part of prospect theory (which won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002), that losses in general feel about two times as bad as wins feel good. So winning $100 at blackjack feels as good to us as losing $50
... See morefrom Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- The US Copyright Office ruled that you cannot copyright AI generated art.
from Robots vs. Lawyers by Muddy Colors