Tag: world view
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On Reading This Book (1979)
The “On Reading This Book” section of Christopher Alexander’s famous publication from 1979 “The Timeless Way of Building” is probably one of the most visionary pieces of reading guidance I have ever read on a book. It looks and feels like the author is talking to today’s audience which suffers from a limited attention span.
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Who am I? (AI)
I saw this post from Santiago this morning, a topic that I have anticipated in my thinking and essays for at least two years now. If digital intelligence can easily copy our looks and tone of voice, the final step in the process of creating a realistic copy of ourselves that could be expressed in…
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The Kings of 21st Century’s Big Houses
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), 54. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent), 53. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, 65. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, 62. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, 58. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), 41. Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon,…
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Charles Stross
Today I learned who Charles Stross is. A new door spawns inside my sci-fi readings portal. Markku Lappalainen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Pavel Durov’s Open Letter to the Free Internet
I totally agree with him, but especially this statement: We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. So we need to work to reverse that sentiment. Those social institutions are the ones that require…
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Leave the Source for Later
Some people now enjoy starting their statements with a direct reference to a (more credible) source of information. It seems that everyone’s suspicious until proven otherwise. For that, along with exposing the broader context of the topic, people just go straight to disclosing the official source of what they are about to say. “According to…
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Deaths are Projected to Exceed Births
By the year 2030. Details on the report. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61390
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The Motivation to Do Things (a 4-Step process)
Step 1 – Allow yourself to take the risk of doing something either you don’t like or don’t have the right tools to do it, or don’t know the outcomes. Step 2 – Keep your eyes and ears WIDE open so you can learn with the process Step 3 – Build a solution for you…