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- Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson69 savers
- Is China’s E.V. Industry a Threat to the U.S.? | The New Yorker1 savers
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- you like books and think they are your friends - by Ava30 savers
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- A List of Interesting Questions for People to Get to Know Their Friends, Family, Lovers, Coworkers, Nemeses, and Selves Better - Google Docs26 savers
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- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet | by Yancey Strickler | OneZero21 savers
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- How to find your zone of genius. The saying goes: “If you do what you… | by Mathilde Collin | Medium7 savers
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- Why I quit working at an AI startup to join the Department of Energy6 savers
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- American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York Times4 savers
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The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
First we shape our social graph; then it shapes usUnlike children today, they had little access to entertainment, and so were often bored, unless they figured out a way to keep their minds occupied; the intellectual obsessions that grew into their life’s work often grew out of this boredom.
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik KarlssonI think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik KarlssonBooks can, in other words, be a good stand-in for a social milieu, up to a point
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik KarlssonEarth lay in the middle, its Goldilocks greenhouse effect just strong enough to support life.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York TimesHis wife, Lenore, was eight months pregnant; was it ethical, he wondered, to bring a child onto a planet that before much longer could become inhospitable to life? And he wondered why it had fallen to him, a 32-year-old lobbyist without scientific training, to bring greater attention to this crisis.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York TimesHe was a geophysicist trapped in the body of an offensive lineman — he had turned down a football scholarship to Rice in order to attend Harvard — and seemed miscast as a preacher of atmospheric physics and existential doom.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York TimesPomerance read about the atmospheric crisis in a state of shock that swelled briskly into outrage. “This,” he told Betsy Agle, “is the whole banana.”
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York TimesChinese people from around the world, and virtually all Fuzhounese Americans in New York City, have ties or are descended from Changle (and not Fuzhou city proper), and nearly all of its development is funded by remittances from its diaspora.
Changle – Travel guide at WikivoyageTake wigglegrams (or a selfie) with people to use as leverage to get their contact numbers
top 10 (university) life hacksBuild combinations of competencies that are not usually found in one person. At this stage of your career, your advantage will never be depth of context. You can however build unique context at the intersection of fields that rarely touch. Build and own your own niche.
Advice for Early Career — Celine HaliouaBuild a model of how busy people think. Minimize activation energy and effort for other people to help you.
Advice for Early Career — Celine HaliouaSecond, they do not contain rich semantics and 3D information at a large-scale.
[1612.00423] TorontoCity: Seeing the World with a Million EyesRemember again when you were a child. You thought that some day you would grow up and find a world of real adults — the people who really made things run — and understood how and why things ran. People like the Martian aristocrats in science fiction. Your father and mother were pretty silly, and the other grownups were even worse — but somewhere, some day, you’d find the real grownups and possibly even be admitted to their ranks. Then, as the years went on, you learned, through more or less bitter experience, that there aren’t, and never have been, any such people, anywhere. Life is just a mes…
The Reality of Henry MillerAnd you know, I don’t imagine it would be that different from my own parties with my friends, because in the fullness of their humanity I’m sure they are just as boring and annoying and interesting as the rest of us.
The parasocial friends you'll never meet - by KasraPart of the activation energy required to start any task comes from the picture you get in your head when you imagine doing it. It may not be that going for a run is actually costly; but if it feels costly, if the picture in your head looks like a slog, then you will need a bigger expenditure of will to lace up.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blogUnresponsive systems are sad. They’re like buildings grown over with moss.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blogThe general rule seems to be: systems which eat items quickly are fed more items. Slow systems starve.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blogIf you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blogWe’re shaped by the successes of startups and our plots to reverse engineer that luck; we’re made all too aware of the fragility of our creative practices in the face of AI.
Kernel | Editor’s NoteWe now see luck as something of an emergent property, a trick that we collectively play on ourselves as we read patterns into the fluctuations of a stochastic world. What does it mean to take luck seriously―to look these fluctuations in their face and make meaning out of them?
Kernel | Editor’s Notenew fire-resistant super wood known as “mass timber,” a building material made of wood pieces compressed together in a factor
Introducing PMX 35: Our model for how tall timber buildings could work in cities | by Cara Eckholm | Sidewalk Talk | MediumIf you’re a senior person in an organisation, you can be kind at scale. Every time you publicly ask a question, you make asking questions feel safer for everyone else.
Being Kind — No Idea Blogit costs something to say you don't think the work is as good as it can be. It takes effort to tease out exactly what isn't working and find the words to explain it.
Being Kind — No Idea BlogIt's built every time one person apologises for asking a basic question and others jump in to insist that “no, it’s a good question! It’s a complicated topic!”
Being Kind — No Idea Blogsince people that have greater recklessness, impulsivity, and risk-taking behaviors build up the perfect profile of an immigrant
Hypomania in America: A Legacy of Craziness-Turned-Success | by Danny Zhu | MediumWe crave the dopamine hit that comes from completing a task perfectly, which often leads us to spend more time on a project than initially planned, fine-tuning every detail.
Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | LedgerIt’s unsurprising that startup founders would benefit from the ability to hyperfocus and subsequently be more likely to have ADHD.
Why does everyone I know have ADHD? (Part 1) - by Ava“experiences the mind as a perpetual-motion machine. An intense aversion to boredom, an abhorrence of it, takes hold as soon as there is no ready focus of activity, distraction or attention.
Why does everyone I know have ADHD? (Part 1) - by AvaZone of Genius: Activities that you are uniquely good at in the world, and that you love to do, so much so, that time and space likely disappear to you when you do them.
How to find your zone of genius. The saying goes: “If you do what you… | by Mathilde Collin | MediumSF is a revolving door — one side is a dream of endless wonder and promise and the other is a nightmare where you are alone and you never really mattered to anyone at all. It’s unclear which side of the door you’re on until you opt out of the ladder completely.
San Francisco, I love you?The motivation behind everything then becomes about the individual and the hero’s journey, and every failure or insecurity is hidden away unless sharing it serves the purpose of authentic relating to gain access to new connections who will get you closer to the Silicon Valley dream.
San Francisco, I love you?How can you not be if you are quickly measured, in almost every interaction, by how many steps you are away from the fundamental question.
San Francisco, I love you?How then — when traveling, but also in our work — do we not be ‘tourists”? How do we push past the inertia of the same, endless highways and byways via Google Maps? To know when to seek an alternative route, intellectually speaking, with both the audacity to go far and broad in our thinking, and the humility to bring back what we find there.
Notes on RoadtripsYou need that alchemical element of “love” to match the founders’ own ardor. Managing and even channeling your feelings is one of the make or breaks for success.
What I learned from my first three years as an executiveMy sisters are doctors: their careers look like a triangle, where they get more and more specific over time until their expertise sharpens to a point. My career will look more like an hourglass, with my skills widening back to where they started, just on a higher level.
What I learned from my first three years as an executiveare actually terrible at having the drive/follow through to take things to completion. They’ll usually want to give up at the first sign of failure or slowness.
How to hire low experience, high potential peopleMany of the metanarratives and worldviews floating around today already frame startups as the best vehicle for impact and the coolest thing to do
Why I quit working at an AI startup to join the Department of Energyambition is probably a disease
you can just do stuff - alice mazEvery year lived with Google at your fingertips is like 5 lived within the limits of paper books. In many ways, I feel older than my father, who is 83. I know the world in much richer, machine-augmented ways than he does
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoThe humbling thing about the rise of machine learning is not that it shows us how stupid we are in “intelligence” terms, but how empty our lives are, in terms of their information content.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoThe larger lesson here is this: lived human experience is not worth as much as you might think.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoBiological humans are simply bad at being exploratory enough to log a year's worth of data for a year's worth of life lived. So we end up as bundles of conservative biases as we age, and grow set in our ways.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoThis is not like belonging to an intellectual tradition, with a lineage of masters passing on their knowledge and skills through books and teaching. That process of cultural transmission is limited by the individual-human-mind bottlenecks it must periodically pass through.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoIf AI models cannot be reduced to human terms of reference, perhaps human thought can be expanded to comprehend computational terms of reference.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh Raot's Big Data when it’s cheaper to store it than decide what to do with it.
Superhistory, Not Superintelligence - by Venkatesh RaoThe Municipality of Barrington says Lucy is the only prognosticating crustacean to make a prediction in Canada. Bill Murray was reported as being bemused by the idea of a lobster forecaster.
Lucy the Lobster from Barrington, Nova Scotia — GROUNDHOG DAYJimmy has an extremely high accuracy rate on his annual predictions, making him an outstanding leader in meteorological circles. He occasionally bites mayors’ ears.
Jimmy the Groundhog from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin — GROUNDHOG DAYJoy arises from the challenge of exertion, the thorough search to find it. Still, the world demands effort and follow-through in the smallest of actions. Laundry, workouts, meals, articles, dishes, calendar invites.
living the life you believe in - by Nix 🕊ambitious in my life as a whole: an ambitious friend, partner, writer. Each part requires a consistent slog toward something really soft and ambiguous. It’s hard to tell if you spend more time investing in particular areas that they will have any ‘return’. It’s hard to tell what to prioritize.
living the life you believe in - by Nix 🕊