MargaretC
@margaretc
MargaretC
I isn’t ready to be an entrepreneur, but its ideation-prototype-interview cycle does in a couple of seconds what takes my students months to do. AI isn’t ready to build educational games without errors, but it is able to instantly make an interactive simulation that explains a difficult concept, even if some nuance is missing
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have stored everything and saved nothing.
Grand Central Winter
sevenstories.com
As Ethan said a year ago, it takes 10 hours of monkeying around to get into it. But I think a good AI executive training program can dramatically shorten the window, assuming a growth mindset on the exec’s part. I ran into a retired architect the other day who was bemoaning wanting to work in retirement but he had never learned CAD-CAM! Now he’s tw... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
“My LASIK is wearing off.” When LASIK is the one thing that patients know about ophthalmology, it’s no wonder they come to the incorrect conclusion that LASIK must be the answer to their problems again. They often then have a reasonable followup question: “How many times am I going to need this?”
The answer? Most of the time, they don’t. The average... See more
The answer? Most of the time, they don’t. The average... See more
How Should I Manage the 10-Year Post-LASIK Patient Who is Now Unhappy With His or Her Vision?
laughter
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my favo... See more
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my favo... See more