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Meghan Hannes, a cyber-insurance portfolio manager, remembers the moment she realised the ground had shifted, back in 2019. “My claims person called and said, ‘Hey Meg, we had seven ransomware demands this week, and they’re all for millions of dollars,’” she said
Amanda Chicago Lewis • Secrets of a ransomware negotiator
Hobbies & Interests and Books I want to remember
mist comes right then, laying the salt air gently on the fruit, you have something that money can’t buy and chefs can’t create. A perfect, lightly salted blackberry. You can’t make them; it has to come with time and nature. They’re a gift, when you think summer’s over and the good stuff has all gone. They’re a gift.”’ Our path, our magnificent walk, was slipping away from him. Hold on to it, Moth, hold it tight; it’s ours, our bright light in the mess of our lives.
Led by public figures like Michael Pollan, Tim Ferriss, and even Joe Rogan, and leading institutions like Johns Hopkins, NYU, Berkeley, and Imperial College London, therapeutic psychedelics are going mainstream again
Packy McCormick • The Magic of Mushrooms
In evolutionary science, there’s a theory about the way species evolve. It’s called punctuated equilibrium: long periods of time where everything stays the same, followed by intense moments of rapid change. I think this happens to people, too. And I feel another punctuation coming.
Just a moment...
Mark Schaefer - Belonging to The Brand
youtube.com“Super ager” is used to describe someone over 80 with an exceptional memory — one at least as good as the memories of people who are 20 to 30 years younger.
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
that people are engaging in what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief." This concept describes a participatory (rather than passive) cognitive or imaginative stance that we willingly and strategically adopt towards various media—be it AI, novels, movies, or even wrestling matches.
We consciously choose this position to... See more
We consciously choose this position to... See more
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
