"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
When lamenting how hard it is to communicate across divides, remember TCP/IP: this suite of protocols, powering the Internet, is essentially an agreement 1. to collaborate and 2. on how to do so, facilitating universal communication, despite language, nation and politics.
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Reading Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib, I learned about what he calls “punch card brain”—victims can’t move beyond punch card limitations: characters per row, length of variables, etc.
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Technology idea: user interfaces make it easy and quick to do common things, but they should also make it easy and quick to do rare but sensitive or urgent things, e.g. set your out-of-office message on email.
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Joe Biden wins presidential election by a slim margin; wins popular vote and electoral college.
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Philosophy Smell #5: “Astrolophizing”—making claims, or especially critiques, that aren’t necessarily untrue but that are so generic that they can be applied more or less to anything; see astrology.
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In reading about the Kasparov/Deep Blue matches, I learned that human chess players and later Kasparov learned that one way to win was to play a restrained, even “boring” game, because the computers were strongest when under attack.
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Consciousness is like a fractal: the areas (thoughts) into which you zoom (think) characterize what follows; the process continues indefinitely and you can change focus at any time. So, think about beautiful things.
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From the diary of a loved one, responding to the prompt, “What are you most afraid of?” January: Being overwhelmed by work. May: losing someone. July: Other people’s expectations. October: the failure of our democracy.
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“Our people are our most valuable asset.” I know it’s possible to abstract human beings into cost and income data in your calculations as an expedient, but when you say it like this to our face, it makes it seem like you like it.
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Frauds like Keith Raniere of NXIVM are quick to use “tech,” thus, as a mask. You are what gets packaged, then sold back to yourself.
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