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General (non-narrow) intelligence of the sort we all display daily is not an algorithm running in our heads, but calls on the entire cultural, historical, and social context within which we think and act in the world.
Erik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
while technology has gotten us into this mess (climate change) only technology can get us out of it. Only the technium (our technological system) is “big” enough to work at the global scale needed to fix this planetary sized problem. Individual personal virtue (bicycling, using recycling bins) is not enough.
Noah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
The biggest thing I’ve learned in product management is to always focus on the problem. If you anchor yourself with the why, you will be more likely to build the right thing
Melissa Perri • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
When projects are scoped too large, a few things happen: They take a long time to deliver, which means that work is locked up for long periods of time without creating value.
sharedphysics.com • When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we’re confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Lesson #1: Earn the right to build the next thingCommit to following through on what you’ve already planned or launched before you chase the next creative, experimental, or shiny idea. “Earn the right to build” and “have respect for sequencing” are principles I’ve internalized.