Tag: pensata
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Success comes from simplifying validated products
People want products with less features. People want simpler features.
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Note Taking, revisited
Draft I’m not taking as many notes as I was used to take. It has nothing to do with motivation, but with function or… utility. Until before the C-19 pandemics, note taking was for me a form of extending my brain from an utilitarian perspective. My note included pieces of knowledge I understood were “closer…
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UAI
In case you are Brazilian, you must be thinking I’m crazy. In some regions of Brazil, “UAI” sounds like a gentle form of “WTF”. That’s not what I mean. UAI stands for Useful Artificial Intelligence. Useful to me, at least. Instead of labeling AI to every piece of artificial intelligence I see around — and…
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Slow Reading Books
Slow reading books is a joy. I’m rereading the entire Dune Chronicles, and I’m doing it slowly. At the time of this writing I’m reading the first book, Dune, alongside a handful of other books I’m reading for the first time. The main reason I can read slow is because all the typical “reader’s expectations”…
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Fonts and Spreadsheets
I’m working on a hobby project of building a “Mathematics applied to Finance” course. That means using a spreadsheet to build basic business finance scenarios without using any functions but formulas with the typical addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations. Yes, old school. As I was working on the spreadsheet with some examples, I decided…
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I know the AI I don’t want
I don’t know the AI that I want. I prefer to wait for a big surprise. I’m assuming it’s going to be a very positive one. I know for sure the AI I don’t want. I’ve got to the conclusion after not much thinking about it. I don’t want an AI that makes tyrants intelligent.…
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Words and Maturity
Words are very powerful symbols. Sentences? Even more so. It takes courage to write in public when maturity arrives. Your words can provoke ideas and judgments from others. Judgments from others, if also made public, can test your maturity and your ability to accept them. Images and symbols are not as straightforward as words. At…
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Pinterest for Breakfast
There’s nothing better than starting the day with a few minutes on Pinterest. An endless stream of images curated by an algorithm that has been trained to satisfy you. You’ll only see topics of your interest. It’s perfect. News? They’re basically lies that make up a big global psyops movement. The only news worth look…
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Every person on the planet should have their own website
Amin Eftegarie makes an excellent point on personal websites and Archive.org — that once you publish something online, there are good chances that it would become eternally available via Archive.org. On the other hand, content you publish inside walled gardens like social media may vanish after a handful of years of account activity or be…
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Tell me what you don’t know
People on LinkedIn are now posting badges like crazy. Any micro 1h online course will offer its participants a completion badge. So I’m seeing things like “Congratulate this person for his/her new badge: How to say ‘hi’ to people in the morning” No, I’m not exaggerating. I’m seeing this at that level of granularity. It…