Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
— T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
— T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
“Power is the currency of change, and policy is merely frozen power.” - David Rolf
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
"Fear determines what is or isn't possible. If you think something is too scary, it's too scary for you. If you don't think you have any power... you don't. If you aren't the captain of your fate... then fate is the captain of you." - Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling
Fire
Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think
your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage.
You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster
that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.
Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of
... See more“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
– Ram Dass
– Ram Dass
Tina Roth Eisenberg • Part of The Dance
The Obamas Strike Back — The Ezra Klein Show
overcast.fmWhat explains the dividing line between Democrats who saw the debate and started urging a switch and those who circled the wagons all the more ferociously? Many Democrats, including elected officials, party officers, labor leaders, and influencers, promised that replacing Biden would lead to chaos and disunity.