Solarev
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Solarev
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. Yesterday the marriage may have
... See moreA vibecession is the idea of a disconnect between consumer sentiment and economic data. So basically, the economy is doing fine, but people are absolutely not feeling fine.
Kyla Scanlon • It's More Than Just Vibes
misalignment
Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The solution is to understand the total system, to design it in a way that allows all the pieces fit nicely together, so that initial learning as well as usage are both optimal. Years ago, Larry Tesler, then... See more
Don Norman • Living with Complexity (MIT Press)
Choosing to adopt minimalistic design does not necessarily mean deep understanding of the system. But some stellar understanding of the universe of systems thinking is often times minimal to demonstrate the core nodes
And so we do. But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.” We are not talk ing here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consump tion, a structural conceit for binding together a series of... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
Tools like ChatGPT are great at creating. AI can generate options in high quantities at high speed. It is great at providing more choices. But it is not great at discerning and choosing what to do and what not to do.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
the “choosing“ entails the importance of human decisions
In Homegoing, One of Gyasi’s wisdom spoke to me: "If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” It’s about choices in life, the feeling of regret, but also about the sense of clarity. It speaks on moment of doing. How do you know if you feel a sense of clarity when doing? It draws again on paying... See more
Ahn and Chi have made their name in the Vancouver dine-out scene. They are doing two things fundementally right: storytelling and community building. https://anhandchi.com/
They define the name of the restaurant as:
Anh and Chi
[/ aĭŋ / ænd / tʃi/]: noun / conjunction / noun
1. Elder brother and elder sister of the same family;
2. respectful form
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