From Seth Godin’s post The best possible use:
The next few minutes or days or months–sure, you own them, and you can put them to whatever use you choose. But just because you’ve been using your time in a particular way for a long time doesn’t mean you need to keep doing that.
From Farnam Street’s Weekly Newsletter (2024-01-21):
Left unchecked organizations default to bureaucracy. People default to distraction.
It doesn’t take long for 3 priorities to become 10. It doesn’t take long for 2 people in a meeting to become 8. It doesn’t take long to move from people making decisions to committees.
The most productive organizations and people spend a lot of energy fighting what feels good in pursuit of what gets results.
I have settled on a simple test for judging claims (…) to have explained the nature of consciousness (or any other computational task): if you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
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The field of artificial (general) intelligence has made no progress because there is an unsolved philosophical problem at its heart: we do not understand how creativity works. Once that has been solved, programming it will not be difficult.
— David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity, p. 154 and p. 163
“It is not too late to do what you want to do—if you stop waiting for the time to be right.”
It’s often said that where there’s a will, there’s a way. What we overlook is that when people can’t see a path, they stop dreaming of the destination. To ignite their will, we need to show them the way.
— Adam Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater