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making Sublime — for you and for me.

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I have always tried to take lots of notes, typically as snapshots of my mental state. What I’m thinking about, what my priorities are, where my attention is going. I’ve persisted with the habit I think because my notes tend to reveal to me a more complex, evocative, varied version of myself than my memory does. My notes show me that I flit around a... See more

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making sublime

Second, most of the folks making the most noise in a technological bubble either i) do not read history, ii) need to make it seem like their technology is world changing and the change is closer than anyone can ever imagine (because otherwise investors would not be willing to hand over their cash) ... or iii) blindly believe the folks who are

Commoncog • Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI

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the one thing that humans can do that AIs cannot do is meaning-making.

What is meaning-making? Vaughn’s chosen definition is that meaning-making is “any decision we make about the subjective value of a thing.”

Humans make meaning all the time — in business and in life. We:

Decide that something is good or bad. For instance: “diamonds are beautiful”

How to Use AI Without Becoming Stupid

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Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility painting the horizon.

The sublime feeling

What we do with our freedom

The examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil associations Tocqueville admired, and the Boy Scout movement show us that when the external structure of work disappears, rather than simply relax, we do one of three things.

First, we reinvent work... See more

The New Leisure Class

Future of Work

thisamericanlife.org

What if it all goes right?

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

-Charles Mackay

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"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, not your hierarchy.

"When your kids are two years old, you say, 'Don't do that!' You're a benevolent dictator. But you have to be careful because when they're 25, you have very little authority over

Parenting and family stuff and It's All About People