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You can find Vernon Smith hard at work at his computer by 7:30 each morning, cranking out 10 solid hours of writing and researching every day.
His job is incredibly demanding — he is currently on the faculty of both the business and law schools at Chapman University. But the hard work pays off: Smith’s research is consistently ranked as the... See more
His job is incredibly demanding — he is currently on the faculty of both the business and law schools at Chapman University. But the hard work pays off: Smith’s research is consistently ranked as the... See more
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going to reclaim the ability to chain together more than three thoughts in succession before reaching for a device.
some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same
t doesn’t help that the two most impressive implementations of AI for real work - Claude’s artifacts and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter - are often hidden and opaque
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
Godin: I think most people who are stuck are so because they're attached to the outcome and they're reverse-engineering from the outcome. They're saying, ‘Well, my calling is to make this’. No. Actually, you've just reversed it. What you want is that, and now you've announced that that's your calling, not the other way around. To ship the work is this practice of saying, ‘I don't know yet what change I can make in people. I have some assertions. I have some beliefs, but I don't know yet. And if I hoard it and I don't expose it to other people, I will never know. And so if we're truly here to do generous work, I think a big part of that generous work is sharing it.’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrahbrustein/2020/11/20/seth-godin-on-why-having-a-consistent-practice-is-the-birthplace-of-creativity-not-a-muse/