lisa

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I’m late for the future!

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In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.

The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.

A blue

good work

You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.

J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

things that made me go hmm/woah and fear is the mindkiller

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this... See more

Andrej Karpathy • Tweet

good work

Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.

We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed

Ted Gioia • The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College

The Long Run and blueprints

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Brian Eno

i miss the old internet

CRISPR builds a big tomato that’s actually sweet

Max Kozlov nature.com

Your CEO Just Said ‘Use AI or Else.’ Here’s What to Do Next.

Alex Duffy every.to

what AI can't do

As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down

walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

futurism & foresight

To me, challenging doesn’t look like the person who just grinds through a project to get it done, sacrificing sleep, family, or any semblance of balance. While brute force may be effective short -term, I’m convinced it doesn’t lend itself to sustainable creativity, joy, or meaning (and sustainability is everything – from a biological and... See more

Unknown • Challenging * Mattering = Meaningful

to be human and blueprints