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building something old
- Sometimes it feels like there are more people trying to predict the future than shape it
How to avoid cynicism:
Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"
-via @being_on_line
sparks and provocations
- Help us spread the word on an important new role: We are hiring an Editor in Chief at @joincolossus. Our podcasts reach ~8m unique people a year and the scope of our ambition is growing. We are building a platform to find and shine a light on the most interesting people and ideas on the frontiers of business and investing. That'll include perp... See more
- I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and always from periods of intense humility (i.e. your ego finally relenting)
i doubt that even highly advanced AI can solve complex human problems, as these require constant meaning-making in infinitely varied situations.
thinking: there is a bias in decision-making which renders one big thing more important than lots of small things.
"We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else. Perhaps once in a
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