Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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- the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:
People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship action and ha
... See morefrom Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness by Maria Popova
Dreamers, oh dreamers, I know too well some of you. Wake up, before too much of your precious lives has passed by.
- Next come the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:
People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship act
... See morefrom Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness by Maria Popova
- "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
from The Rural Rebellion Will Decide This Election by Robert W Malone MD, MS
We’re very close
- YC founder Paul Graham's latest prediction:
Within the next 20 years, the number of people who can truly write will decrease significantly. This is not just about the disappearance of writing skills, but also the divergence of thinking abilities. The emergence of AI technology will create a divided world of "those who can write" and "those who canno
... See morefrom Meng Li on Substack
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was i
... See morefrom The Personalization Wave, a Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas of the Month by Scott Belsky
AI as liberation. AI as opportunity to be more creative and human.
- Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. (Only strong people are safe people, the measure of strength being not the absence of vulnerability — and “weakness” is just a judgment term for vulnerability — but the ability to carry one’s vulnerability with such self-awareness and valor so as not t... See more
from Special Edition: 18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
Inspirational Bites for Daily Living and Life
Suffering is a tool. Eradicating it from society, may not be a wise choice.
Fascinating Future
“Civium is a way of looking at cities, and specifically what a post-city world might look like.
It imagines an alliance between technology and the countryside replacing the city as the focus of creativity and wealth-creation.
It is the idea that there is no longer much point living in the middle of a large conurbation when you can n
... See more- Stop searching for something new.
Organize and add value to what is already there.from Article
I don’t want to go live in a cabin and swear off AI.
I want a world where “slow AI” doesn’t sound like such an oxymoron.
Where we collectively stop falling for the empty promise of doing more, faster.
And focus on doing less, better.
The goal can’t be making more stuff.
It has to be making something wonderful.
Source: Sari Azout