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Talking to Charna Halpern About Working with Del Close to Create Longform Improv
Deidre Ann Davisvulture.com
It’s all about communicating. It’s about listening. So [improv] is a great thing. I think [improv] should be taught in high schools. I think we’re saving our corner of the world because we’re teaching people to be better people. We’re making people listen and take care of each other and work as a group. So, I think everyone should have to do it. So I’d say to the scared people, just think of taking a class that makes you a better person. And that’s not scary.
MinaCelentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (con Roberto Bolle)
youtube.comOne way to prune is to see where best-book lists overlap, on the theory that books that appear most often must be really worth your while. That is what a website called thegreatestbooks.org has done. Its creator, Shane Sherman, a computer programmer in Texas, has used more than 300 lists to come up with a list of lists, which he calls, not entirely... See more
How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?
Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can... See more
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can... See more
stephango.com • What Can We Remove?
But doing nothing has a number of issues. First, it ignores the very real fact that we do not need any further advances in AI technology to see years of future disruption. Right now, AI systems are not well-integrated into businesses and organizations, something that will continue to improve even if LLM technology stops developing
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of... See more
Italo Calvino • Numbers in the Dark
it is kind of surprising that none of the major AI labs seem to have put out any deep documentation aimed at non-specialists. There are some guides for programmers or serious prompt engineers, but remarkably little aimed at non-technical folks who actually want to use these systems to do stuff - the vast majority of users