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“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking HumansA trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not try to satisfy all the demand. Instead, always maintain a ring of desire around your work of people who are intrigued but can’t get it quite yet. Do it long enough and an organic trend will emerge.
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... See morepeople think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
never trust a thought you have indoors
- Social media basically brought us to something like an oral culture: - We're not illiterate in the sense that we can't read, our writing approximates our speaking - Our writing isn't as complex because it doesn't function like text used to - We both archive everything and trust our collective memory -- everything is saved, bookmarked, etc. but nev... See more
"If you stay at the center the chances of you catching what's going on is going to to be exponentially higher because you're not relying on third hand information"
-Ghazi from Empire- Frequent lamenting about how bad things are (in politics or relationships or other culture gripes) is mostly a way for people to avoid responsibility for what they can change. If you constantly repeat that everything is bad, it lets your ego off the hook for doing nothing.
- i wish people celebrated the internet as much as they bemoan it. it’s literally a World Wide Web of humans, an unthinkable miracle that you and i can connect because i tap my fingers on a piece of glass for 30 seconds. let us not be numb to this!! bring back wonder & appreciation