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“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so
... See moreDuring this Thailand walk, our nightly conversation topics were:
- How do you stay motivated?
- What do you escape or resist?
- What does home mean to you?
- Shocking solutions to public problems.
- Tell us about a failure.
- Frameworks to make big decisions.
- What is your health regime?
- How do you use lists?
- What do you believe that your heroes do
Derek Sivers • walk and talk | Derek Sivers
Travel and
The incentive to find breakthrough science that provides a performance pathway other than scaling is increasing. A GPT-6 class model will cost $10 billion and three years to improve on GPT-5 by some uncertain degree. That’s a ton of time and a lot of cash for an uncertain payout: in other words, a substantial prize for anyone who can figure out... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
Loneliness and Human Interactions/Relationships & Connections
Over the course of 14 hours, we rolled up our sleeves and got our hands dirty generating creative ideas to address disconnection, loneliness, polarization, and other deep-rooted societal challenges.
Disconnection is the disease. Creativity is the cure. The creativity revolution has begun.
verything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning.
Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll... See more
Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll... See more
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
it is the way a group is gathered that determines what happens in it and how successful it is, the little design choices you can make to help your gathering soar.