Tag: world view
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The most honest and precise definition of 21st century Brazil you can find on the Internet
This is Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Português “O Brasil é uma das sociedades mais desiguais na história da humanidade. Mas nós somos agora, sobretudo, medíocres. O aparato produtivo está desqualificado e os brasileiros estão sem equipamento cognitivo, sem as competências necessárias para participar da economia do conhecimento. Então, o país, há vários governos, é comandado por…
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There will be huge changes
That is all we know by now. I have been telling my kids the exact same thing PG says about AI to his own kids.
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Musk’s Contribution to Consumption Ratio
Try to be useful. Do things that are useful to your fellow human beings. To the world. It’s very hard to be useful. Very hard. Are you contributing more than you consume? Try to have a positive net contribution to society. I think that’s the thing to aim for. If you live a useful life.…
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“First-world problem”
I like Oliver Burkeman’s definition on his essay “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket” for what he calls a first-world problem: people concerned about not being able to keep up with their ever growing reading/listening/watching backlog. I agree with him. A lot of people get so nervous about information inflow, which…
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Customers don’t care about the invisible
Days ago I wrote about the fact you can feel free to do things your own way because nobody’s watching you. This time I feel something slightly different. Customers are looking at you. They look at your company, but they only see what’s visible. They see the tip of the iceberg. They don’t see the…