Salman Ansari
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embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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- In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in res... See more
from AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws by Oliver Reichenstein
In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in resisting the emptiness of the generated response, I uncover what I previously could not articulate. I do not want to demonize AI, but it works well as a devil’s advocate.
- I no longer pray—
now I drink dark chocolate
and let the moon sing to me. - Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could ta... See more
from Surely You Can Be Serious by Adam Mastroianni
While I do enjoy my work in startups, I sometimes think of it as “fundraising” for the creative work I do. The world doesn’t usually fund the things it needs most (art). So sometimes you have to find a way to fund it yourself.
- Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.
from The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.” by thekcpgroup.com
What you learn about the world through fairy tales is to accept things that may not make obvious sense. Trust that there is order behind them, and by doing so slow down the entropy of life.
from The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology by Shane Parrish
- From here, my recommendations go niche, and I want to make a case for why.
For any writer, but especially a writer of fiction, this is an arbitrage play. You don’t want to be reading the books that everybody else is reading. Possibly you don’t want to be reading the books that ANYbody else is reading. This is totally achievable; there are plenty... See more - As John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)
from TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge
Reminds me of how I knew when my stories are done: There are always still problems, but you reach a point where fixing them will only create new ones.
- i want to make software that feels like magic.
from i want to make software that feels like magic by Eugene Kudashev
- Young Adults Are in Crisis - The Atlantic
from Young Adults Are in Crisis — The Atlantic by Faith Hill
Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. More than half of young adults were worried about money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives lacked meaning or purpose. Teenagers and senior citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest levels of anxiety and depression, Weissbourd’s research has found.