Patricia
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Patricia
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
YearCompass Web
yearcompass.vercel.app
But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and rem... See more
John Gruber • ★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
gilest.org: Clarity hacks
The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.
The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
AI Reading List
This is aimed towards the AI curious looking to go down the rabbit hole not the AI expert. It will be updated ~monthly. Recommendations are accepted via DM @JackSoslow
docs.google.com
The better life you absolutely can build isn’t going to be brought to you by ChatGPT but by your own steady uphill clawing and through careful management of your own expectations. You live here. This is it.
To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
