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Telling is only an investment if you know for sure that what you are telling is of value to the other person. That is why it is safest to tell only if you have been asked, rather than arrogantly deciding on your own to tell somebody something.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
The fundamental problem is that I don't know when I’m going to need a particular fact, quote, or idea again. So all of these strategies are aimed at either improving my memory to keep them top of mind, or creating an organizational strategy that makes sure I bump into them later when I need them.
Dan Shipper • GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind
Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and
digital gardens. Or make themselvesillegibleand algorithmically incoherent in public venues.
Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
True ambition in a poet seeks fame in the old sense, to make words that live forever. If even to entertain such ambition reveals monstrous egotism, let me argue that the common alternative is petty egotism that spends itself in small competitiveness, that measures its success by quantity of publication, by blurbs on jackets, by small achievement:
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Most every article I read last week noted Bulletin’s email portability. But an important piece of fine print mostly got left out of the narrative: at launch, and maybe for a long time, Bulletin subscribers are only able to make purchases using Facebook’s own payment platform, Facebook Pay. And should you leave Bulletin, you can’t export those custo... See more
Casey Newton • Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
To connect the dots, the “iPhone 1.0” of the Web3 ecosystem was Bitcoin, first conceptualized in 2008 as a decentralized, alternative banking system – and then rolled out via the first blockchain in 2009.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
But this no longer works in a technology-centric world. Tech has dramatically accelerated the pace of innovation, forcing workers to refresh skills throughout a career.
Rex Woodbury • How Technology and Covid-19 Are Reinventing Education
We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people. When it comes to personal happiness there is a lot that we as individuals can do.